"Everyone else works all day and sleeps at home with their family. We sell that sleep to earn our money."

Sapa drives a truck full of living fish three hundred kilometres through the night, from a pond in northern Bangladesh to a market in Dhaka that opens before dawn. There is no ice on the truck — only a tank of water and a diesel pump keeping it moving, because a fish that arrives dead is worth a fraction of one that arrives alive.

We travelled with him for two days. This is the whole journey: loading in the monsoon rain, the water changed three times on the road, a night highway, a dawn market, and the drive home — where the news of the next trip is already waiting.

Mohammad Safaur Rahman is thirty-nine. He has been in this trade for about fifteen years, and he has been robbed twice on this road. He would not let his daughters near it.

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Filmed over two days in Bagmara, Rajshahi and on the Dhaka highway.
Bangla interviews, English narration.

Original score composed for this film. Soundtracks are shared with supporters on Patreon.

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