A drunk widower and a runaway girl drift through London's canals—reality gets weird.
A feature-length road trip drama, set on the iconic London canals. We are narrated an unlikely story mixing reality with hints of British folklore. Vincent (Alex Scrivens) is a lone mechanic boater on the canals who’s grieving from the death of his wife. Nursing his wounds with alcohol. One morning he stumbles back to his boat only to find a girl, Samantha (Olivia Griffiths). She’s going up the canal to find her mum, so they travel together, slowly finding a common purpose.
Cinematography
The canals become a character—muddy, beautiful, haunted.
Acting
Scrivens makes grief visceral without a single theatrical moment.
Writing
Folklore bleeds in so subtly you'll question what you saw.
Director
Nikolas Harris
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot entirely on the actual London canal system with a skeleton crew, often filming from moored boats.
The film taps into a real British subculture: the 'continuous cruisers' who legally must move every two weeks, creating a hidden transient community.
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