Based on the true life Edwardian love story of Stephen Reynolds, fisheries expert and Harry Painter, a trawler man The Cormorant is a tale of remembrance and loss, reflecting on presence in absence with the landscape acting as a trigger for reminiscence. Set a year after the tragedy of the Spanish Flu it speaks of the bond that existed between two men at a time when such relationships were forbidden.
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