When an intelligent, attractive young woman arrives in Flemington, the lives of several young African-Australians are forever changed as friendships are tested and new identities are formed.
The story of four refugees fleeing Vietnam in 1980, Mother Fish goes inside the mind of Kim, one of the survivors. The present melds with the past as unassuming factory worker Kim relives the harrowing sea journey that she and her sister undertook in a creaky river boat in search of a better life.