Craig has said goodbye to his mother at Gatwick Airport and is heading to South America to interview for a new job, hoping to change his life, not realising just how much it will truly change. The engines on the plane fail and he is forced to bail out in a lifeboat. He spends days at sea until, at last, he finds himself washed up on a beach on an island that he believes to be deserted.
Making friends with a seagull he calls Jonathan, a sunburnt, dehydrated and starving Craig struggles to survive in a new hostile environment without iPads, Starbucks and anti-depressants, not realising that he is not alone after all.