A story of love, loss, and learning to let go.

An elderly man, Edward, sits with his dog on a park bench watching the sun set over London’s skyscraper-etched skyline. A sudden storm forces Edward back to his solitary flat and into stormy memories of his youth in the hills of rural Shropshire and the people he once loved and lost.

Based on Ralph Vaughan Williams’ song cycle from 1909 and the poetry of A. E. Housman and told through a visually striking blend of traditional shadow-puppetry and contemporary animation.

We follow Edward as both an old man, nearing the end of his life, and a young man, struggling to fit into the world around him. War, industrialisation, and prejudice pull Edward from the rural idyll of his youth into his self-imposed urban isolation.

Wracked by guilt, shame, and heartbreak he must retrace his footsteps to find the peace he craves.