A family saga based in Staithes, a North Yorkshire fishing village, 1901 - 1951. The heroine, Evelyn Dacre, is based on a model who sat for the Staithes Group of artists.
Chronicles 3 generations of Evelyn's seafaring family in this isolated, inbred community, cursed by tragedy at sea and little room for love on land. Where daily life is tinged with folklore and superstition, touched by the macabre. Where your funeral's the highlight of your life, and your parents force you to marry your cousin "to keep t'brass in t'family".