Jimmie, an aged sailor with impaired memory, has become unmoored in time. He gets lost in the waves of the decades between his former and present selves.
Without a working memory, the former sailor Jimmie is unmoored in time. Fragments of his former life and his younger self appear like islands on the horizon, glide by, disappear in the depths. The older Jimmie does not recognise himself and is frightened by the “strangers.” He gets lost in space and sinks into the empty background.