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After a ferocious early-springtime storm, young Norwegian sailor Hans Lyngstrand is shipwrecked in the English Channel near the coastal Kent town of Dengate - he is one of few survivors. Soon after, aspiring journalist Martin Bridges takes a job as a reporter at the local newspaper. A loner by nature, he’s a curiosity to the nosy townspeople, the gregarious editor of the paper, and his melodramatic landlady, whose own private life is fraught by the unexplained absence of her son and suspicious disappearance of her husband.

Lynn Pinchas, a 50-year-old gay man, is approached by a younger man named Mark, who appears out of nowhere and claims he is Lynn’s son. Is this a scam? Apparently, Lynn’s father had taken him to a female prostitute when he was 18 to “prove” his son wasn’t gay. Could Mark’s mother actually be this prostitute? Through DNA testing, various scenarios are revealed as to the authenticity of Mark’s claim. And just when you think you’ve figured out the mystery, a 50-year-old secret held by Lynn’s dead mother is revealed.