Set in a steamy Glasgow of the early 1950s, the film focuses on the crisis of Joe, a rootless young drifter who finds work on a barge owned by the down-to-earth Les and his enigmatic wife Ella. One afternoon Joe and Les happen upon the corpse of a young woman floating in the water. Accident? Suicide? Murder?

As the police investigate the case and a suspect is arrested, it becomes evident that Joe knows more about the drowned woman than he is letting on. Meanwhile, against the backdrop of the ‘murder’ investigation, Joe and Ella embark on an intimate and passionate affair.

David has directed a number of award-winning shorts for the BBC and Channel Four, including MARCIE'S DOWRY, which showed in the Critics Week at the Cannes Film Festival 2001. He recently completed THE LAST GREAT WILDERNESS, funded by the Scottish Lottery and Trust Films.