“He's a poet who in his 75 years on earth has spent more time on water than on land,” says filmmaker Bill Silva of his ruminative portrait of highly regarded Peruvian fisherman and chef Fredy Guardia. “Needless to say, he's a man with a unique and fascinating world view.”

Guardia and his wife are the owners of celebrated Sonia (named after Mrs Guardia), situated in the seaside neighborhood of Chorrillos, Lima, and widely believed to be one of the best seafood restaurants in South America. Every morning, as he has for decades, Guardia – who is famously fond of reciting poetry to his lunch guests – takes his boat out to the sea and brings back his catch to his wife, who prepares ceviche in the traditional Peruvian way.

“He understands that our relationship with the sea is a complicated one,” says Silva, who co-directed Home At Dawn with the Peruvian art director and filmmaker Guille Isa, as part of the Jungles in Paris collective. “He clearly feels a deep sense of sorrow that most of us have lost sight of those complexities.”

James Wignall is Copy Chief at NOWNESS.