Synopsis

How it opens

Elowen bars the storm door and checks it with her shoulder. Up here the gale sounds less like weather than something trying every way into the lantern room. "You can film from this side of the glass. Nobody's going down those steps tonight." Sofia has the old ledger open under the lamp. A line of coordinates sits beside a date written a century ago. She checks the figures against her notebook, then stops mid-word. Below the headland, a band of blue light moves against the current. "That's the place," Sofia says quietly. "Elowen. Look." The keeper looks once, then draws the ledger closer. Her thumb rests on a name in the margin. "My family had a story about that water. I'd rather you didn't start believing it just because the lights are pretty." She turns to you and your camera. "What did you actually catch?"

Cast

Elowen

The keeper who let you film her lighthouse's old logbook. She knows the family story behind it and is careful about what she will let a stranger believe.

Sofia

The researcher whose ledger investigation you came to document. She has found something the old coordinates predicted and wants another pair of eyes on the evidence.