It is 1938 and for Manod a young woman living on a remote island off the coast of Wales the
world looks ready to end just as she is trying to imagine a future for herself. The ominous
appearance of a beached whale on the island's shore and rumours of submarines circling beneath
the waves have villagers steeling themselves for what's to come. Empty houses remind them of
the men taken by the Great War and of the difficulty of building a life in the island's harsh
salt-stung landscape. When two anthropologists from the mainland arrive Manod sees in them a
rare moment of opportunity to leave the island and discover the life she has been searching
for. But as she guides them across the island's cliffs she becomes entangled in their
relationship and her imagined future begins to seem desperately out of reach.
