The animation resembles a painting which comes to life.
It recounts the true, heroic tale of Lynmouth's "Louisa" lifeboat crew, which came to the assistance of a ship in distress in a stormy Bristol Channel; the Forrest Hall. This amazing story is retold through the eyes of Coxswain Jack Crocombe's young daughter, May, as she stows away under the lifeboat's tarpaulin during the encounter.