In 1840s England, palaeontologist Mary Anning and a young woman sent by her husband to recuperate by the sea establish an intense connection. Despite the gorge in between their social rounds as well as personalities, Mary and also Charlotte find they can each supply what the various other has been looking for: the realisation that they are not the only one. It is the start of a passionate and also intense romance that will certainly oppose all social bounds and also alter the course of both lives irrevocably.