The documentary is a reflective journey, exploring the relationship between people and place; between the fishermen and the wilderness they worked for most of their lives.

Lying in the heart of Tasmania's South West Wilderness are the large, pristine waters of Port Davey and Bathurst Harbour. With no road access, they are difficult places to venture into. The most common visitors and the people who know it best, are the old fishermen.

The barren landscape is unlike anywhere else in Australia; quartz capped mountains rise out of the dark, uninhabited harbour. With its dramatic, severe changes in the weather, it is a place that affects all those who go there.

Interwoven through the journey is the story of the arrival of Europeans and their attempts to settle there: the removal of Aboriginal people, the establishment of bay whaling stations and timber-cutting communities, and at the turn of the last century the arrival of the fishermen.

We see the process of crayfishing, including catching the bait and baiting the pots, setting the pots and finally catching and measuring the crayfish.

Among the engaging characters we encounter along the way, is Clyde Clayton, the patriarch of the crayfishing industry in Port Davey. He is now in his nineties and on his last trip to Port Davey in his home and boat the Matthew Flinders.

While exploring both place and character it is above all a personal journey, which culminates in an unexpected revelation.