Seventeen-year-olds; Jean and Cosmo, escape their native Knaresborough to experience student life in Birmingham. Behind the hedonistic adventure of drink and drugs, cracks begin to show in their relationship, where jealousy and betrayal change the very course of their lives but does not free them. Years later, time and distance that stretches across the North Sea, allows them to revisit their relationship and perhaps overcome the trauma of their past.