The times are not what they used to be. Fisherman Stan Rennie and his family have been fishing in the waters of North East England for centuries. But now a wave of poisoned crabs has hit the small communities on the East coast far from London, where people for generations were either fishermen or factory workers. The fishermen think the crabs have been poisoned and it is virtually impossible to make a living from fishing. Brexit has not exactly made things better, and while the fishermen are sounding the alarm and throwing themselves into defending the sea, enterprising local politicians are nurturing visionary plans for a new industrial golden age.