Ásdís Thoroddsen

Jónas, working in peace and quiet in an isolated summerhouse, hires a young girl, Sandra, to cook for and look after him, and complete an ideal situation for an Icelandic writer on the brink of an international breakthrough. The plan, however, does not turn out the way Jónas intended.

Four experienced boatbuilders join forces in building a clinkboat of the type that was once predominant in the Breidafjord Bay archipelago in the West of Iceland. In this film the history and craft of the North European clinkboat, and its many local variations, is examined with the help of historians and boatbuilders in Iceland and other Nordic countries.