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A British man being held captive in Somalia thinks back on an affair he had with a French-Australian woman who specializes in the life forms in lowest depths of the ocean, just as she prepares for a research trip in the ocean around Greenland. A climate cautionary tale, and also a partial love story between two fiercely independent people who have no idea what they want from their own futures.