The Lobster Man

Even idyllic lives can take an unexpected turn for the worse. This is a story of a proud young family living a good life whose future falls apart when the fates turn against them.

A boy grows up on King Island in Bass Strait with his parents on their farm. His mother is a beautiful hard working member of the community as a senior nurse in the Islands hospital a person loved and admired by all who know her.

His father is a successful farmer and lobster fisherman who is a hard working community member who dotes on his wife and son and provides for them from his toil on the land and the sea. Coming from a long line of mariners and fishermen he is idolised by his son who dreams of emulating his father and becoming a lobster fisherman on their boat the Abigail Marie named after his greatly adored mother.

A personal tragedy causes the boy's father to take a series of calamitous actions that determines the future of their lives on the island and the boy's hopes for a future following in the footsteps of his ancestors.

Dreams are sometimes all we have in a tumultuous world where an individual is subject to the fickle winds and tides of cruel fate.