Nineteenth of January: the east coast is deluged. Thousands of people clamber onto their roofs to escape the rising water. What appears out of the doors of the hleicopters that come is not dingies but camera lenses. Turn on and tune in today to a human disaster live and direct in your living room…

Vera is rich and bored. Her life drifting aimlessly, her dreams long abandoned. She yearns for passion and change. What she gets is a run-down hotel room, a flooded toilet and a surly plumber. And when change does come, it’s not the way she dreamed it.

Three miles above an area of tidal land devastated by the floods, there is a single house on the promontory.  Six lives converge.  Recollections flow into conversations.  From the individual acts of kindness, moments of brutality emerge.  Who are the real heroes?

Mr Guthrie is a self-made man. He built Barbara’s new, shiny prefab home on land newly reclaimed for development. He’s given Frank a job on the trawler. A pillar of the community, Guthrie is untouchable. He even has plans to marry Lady Anne – if she’ll let him. But when the floods come – who suffers? Some lives are swept away. It’s time to ask questions of those who live their lives on the higher ground.