John Hawthorn is a young doctor looking for a quiet life. He moves to a sleepy Cornish village after losing his family, as well as having suffered the traumas of the birth of the NHS in a busy London hospital. When the body of a beautiful young woman is found in a sealed compartment of a wrecked battleship, his life is thrown into turmoil as he is transported across time to eight incarnations of the ship in as many centuries. Never really sure what...