Synopsis for the Film

A land in constant danger of being sunk by the sea and the solution seems to be the construction of a dam and a flood barrier. A fishing village has to make way for this rosy future and Haanstra documents with a befuddled detachment as the sea and land and its people are displaced by the towering structures. Haanstra is not concerned with the policy-makers and boardroom denizens, rather his characters are the anonymous everyman who works ceaselessly and with great skill on the ground level, against the endless sky and the mighty sea, trying to forge a grand monument from mere dust. These sober faces so involved in their duties, even as they are unmindful of the enormity of their collective efforts, are the true heroes of the future and in their hands, like the heroes of yore, lies the stuff of a larger destiny.