When Miri’s wife, Leah, returns from a deep-sea mission that took months longer than it should have, she’s overjoyed. But Leah is not the same. Leah’s behaviour becomes peculiar and has increasingly disturbing symptoms she refuses to see a doctor about. Bleeding from pores and water from her mouth. She spends all her time trying to submerge herself. The company that sent her is Kafkaesque in its evasiveness. Leah fears she has lost her wife to the ocean, or she brought the ocean back within her. Something from the deep.

The story jumps between Leah’s fear, loss and frantic attempts to find out what happened; and Miri’s recollections of her time on the submarine (a setup which could easily fit inside an Oceangate conspiracy). The love feels tragic inside this gothic horror.