A successful city trader suddenly loses everything he truly cares about. Seeking comfort in isolation on a remote island, his life is turned upside down by the arrival of a little girl.
Acting
Nesbitt's trembling restraint, Lil Woods' fearless presence
Cinematography
Bleak Scottish coast as emotional landscape
Writing
Dialogue that trusts silence over explanation
Director
Mark Aldridge
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot on the Isle of Lewis in ten days with a skeleton crew during actual storms.
Aldridge originally wrote Peter as older; Nesbitt's casting shifted the father-daughter dynamic to something more volatile and urgent.