A young photographer returns to her family house after a shocking incident: her flat and its contents have been destroyed in a fire. However, the peace and distraction she had hoped for prove hard to find.

After an English spa town is made famous by a 1930s American love- story, a young married actress travels there alone and finds the story itself, as she falls in love with a young Englishman. Many years later, another pair of lovers uncover the tragic secrets of the pre-war love-affair.

A story of the last hours of a women who has lost her husband at sea, who sets out to face her own inevitable death. As storms, shipwrecks and her own buried secrets conspire against her, her chances of surviving long enough either to kill herself, or to find redemption begin to grow slim.