A luzzu is a traditional wooden boat used by Malta’s fishermen. Director, producer, screenwriter, and editor Alex Camilleri’s film of the same name looks at their lives with documentary-like realism. Many of them also have roles in the film. The main protagonist Jesmark Saliba has inherited his luzzu from his father. Fishermen outside the corporate environment who don't engage in unecological industrial fishing earn very little and face enormous social pressures. What is more, Jesmark has recently become a father and, in an effort to provide for his family, he becomes involved in illegal fishing. Luzzu explores the loss of traditions and the difficulties faced by Europe’s lower middle class living on the edge of poverty.