Approaching his seventeenth birthday, he spends as much time as he can fishing with his grandfather. A threat to this old man's life causes him to question his own values.
In the space of a day, Tom's thoughts about those close to him are severed by an event utterly beyond human understanding.
Tom is projected into a world where his emotions and ability to think are tested to breaking point.
This earth-shattering experience will require every skill he has learned from his mother's seafaring family, to survive violent conflict at sea and star-crossed love.