The video at first seems to be a film essay about Holy Island, written and presented by architecture writer Nicholas Still (played by Richard Stephenson Winter). But there is another voice (spoken by Melanie Dagg) in the screening space as well as that of Still, a female voice at the rear of the space which describes a figure on the run from an unspoken crime who is up to his neck in the sea - in the manner of one of St. Cuthbert’s prayer methods, in which a trance is induced by the chill of the water. The voice describes the fugitive’s ‘hyperthermal’ apocalyptic reveries as he watches from the waves. The figure seems to have returned in order to recreate a moment from his childhood, when he witnessed a film being shot near Lindisfarne Castle in which a criminal is gunned down and a car goes up in flames. This is inspired by a real Internet film forum post, which describes the forum member’s father witnessing the filming, at the Castle, of the climactic scenes of the 1966 Samuel Beckett influenced thriller Cul-de-Sac. Still’s performance eventually falls apart as the voice seems to take over the film. Is the voice from Still’s own subconscious, or is it emanating from the surrounding landscape, or the sea? Or is it the voice of ‘narrative’ itself, submerging everything in it’s sadistic tide?