Frequent Buñuel scenarist and protégé Alcoriza directed with his own poetic style of realism. Shark Hunters cinematically demystifies the Mexican countryside so cherished of earlier genre films, in the story of a businessman who attempts to forsake urban cares for the freedom of life as a shark fisherman on the Tabasco coast. While sending the proceeds of his endeavors home to his wife and children in the city, he keeps a little aside to buy a house for his young girlfriend-product of his dream of life as a free man. He soon finds that the provinces have their own vices and social problems (his divided loyalties crystalize Mexico's own psychic split between Mexico City and the rest of the country); still, he can't get shark-fishing out of his system. Knowledge of the other side only makes him a more Hemingwayesque character.