The Liverpool Flyer is a sailing ship that sank in Jackson's Cove on 8 August 1787. Tom Rossmoor plans to construct commercial buildings on a historic, residential site which Judson intends to stop. Judson is attacked and left to die alone in a cave. His mind becomes blurred between reality and the past fate of the Liverpool Flyer. Semi-conscious, the reality is the rising tide in the cave and the dream is of the chance to change history and save the ship from being wrecked on the rocks