In 1938 a dead whale washes up on the shore of a remote is went off the coast of Wells for 18-year-old Manod, who has never left the island. It feels like both an ominous important and a symbol of what my might lie beneath the island Shores living with her father and her sister to whom she has reluctantly, but devotedly become a mother figure following the death of their own mother man can shake her growing desire to explore life beyond the beautiful yet blistery harsh islands that her hardscrabble family has called home for generation.