Married to Maggie for over half his life, Jack works the mussel beds of North Wales alongside his younger brother, Dyfan, and Dyfan’s three sons. He has always assumed his own son, Tom, will join the family business, but Tom’s resistance creates growing tension. When itinerant deckhand Daniel arrives and makes known his feelings for Jack, he faces an impossible dilemma in this beautiful, sensual and at times tragic exploration of masculinity, place and desire.