The little-conversing thirteen-year-old Marino resides with his headstrong though reticent father Tony on an old shipping yard. While Tony is hard at work towing hefty ship engines, Marino ambles the muddy and often squalid yard for hours on end, searching for sounds to capture on his cassette recorder. In this vague and dreary existence, not offering a chance of fulfillment to either of them, it seems all communication between the two has been adrift for many years. Until on day, Marino finds his strained father playing a lost cassette in his office. It is a tape loaded with memories that will forever change the way they deal with their mourning and grief.