Chris Thornton lives in a restless community struggling to exist in the shadow of tourism on the Cornish coast. Hitching up with three locals, he is taken on a trail of discovery and incident that will irrevocably alter their lives.

Golden Burn

Nick Darke, who comes from a long line of beachcombers ("wreckers", to use the Cornish term), traces the origins of all the items that he has discovered during one stormy winter while beachcombing along the coast of Cornwall near his home. Some of the objects have come from as far away as Labrador or the Amazon Basin.