Andrew Wilkinson sets off alone to kayak across the Tasman Sea, leaving his wife and young son behind for an ocean crossing few have attempted in a standard one-man craft. His first try, in December 2006, ends after two days when he cannot stay warm inside the cockpit. The second attempt launches on 11 January 2007, and the film reconstructs it from footage recovered off a single surviving memory stick along with interviews with the team who tracked him from shore, including veteran sailor Jonathan Borgais, who fed him weather predictions and warned from the start about the notoriously rough water near New Zealand. Andrew sleeps at sea inside a fibreglass capsule nicknamed Casper, sealed and self-righting, built to survive storms but heavy enough that capsizing means swimming free and righting the kayak by hand. It opens with his distress call on 9 February. His kayak is recovered on 10 February, partly flooded and missing the capsule, just 30 nautical miles short of Milford Sound.