An actor plays the helmsman of a fishing boat. His story embodies in one character the events experienced by 42 fishermen interviewed throughout 3 years of field research. Through conflicts and turning points, the staging converses with strictly documentary sequences filmed aboard the fishing boats all over Italy, from Chioggia to Mazara. The fishing work is portrayed in its complexity, between decadence and hopes. “L’intervista in mare” is a hybrid film, straddling between observational documentary and theatrical piece. It delves into an endangered sector, which is asking for a necessary future for the survival of an inestimable collective heritage.