在这部小鱼剧情/爱情/惊悚/犯罪片中,每一个人多多少少都有着不愿意告诉别人的秘密或者想要摆脱的过去，翠西（凯特·布兰切特 Cate Blanchett 饰）也不例外，曾经，她过着如此荒唐的生活，干了许多难以启齿的坏事，如今，良心发现的她决心洗心革面，重新走上生活的正规。
在母亲杰尼尔（诺妮·哈泽赫斯 Noni Hazlehurst 饰）的帮助下，翠西的“洗白”计划顺利的进行着，可是，哥哥雷（马丁·亨德森 Martin Henderson 饰）、男友强尼（达斯汀·阮 Dustin Nguyen 饰）和好友里昂（雨果·维文 Hugo Weaving 饰）的接连出现似乎预示着翠西将无法摆脱灰暗的过去。翠西好不容易建立起来的信心被这些不速之客逐渐的摧毁着，而她和母亲之间艰难修复起来的关系也面临着巨大的考验。
In Sydney, Tracey Heart is a thirty-two years old manager of a video shop ex-addicted in heroin and clean for four years. She is trying to raise forty thousand dollars to buy a shop for computer games on the next door of the rental and become partner of her boss, but based on her negative records, the banks deny the loan. Tracey takes care of her junkie stepfather Lionel Dawson, unsuccessfully trying to make him quit his heroin habit. When her former boy-friend Jonny returns from Vancouver, Tracey's mother Janelle fears a fall of Tracey, while she blames Jonny for the car accident where her son Ray lost one leg. When Ray and Jonny associate to Moss, the assistant of the retired criminal boss Bradley 'The Jockey' Thompson, in drug dealing, Tracey is convinced by Jonny to join them and raise the necessary money for her business along the weekend.
叮咚小鱼。30岁重新开始。漩涡里的小鱼。Little Fish。奋力游泳的小鱼。爸爸，我爱你。“你知道该如何爱人的，就是只管跳进去就好了。”。子非鱼，子非我。逆水行舟里的生活。小鱼。“你知道该如何爱人的，就是只管跳进去就好了。”。
