Director-author Helen Walsh’s previous works have included tough tales set in working-class communities, sometimes focusing on sexuality and forbidden passion. In On the Sea, she turns her camera towards masculinity, as a married father fights his attraction to another man. Barry Ward plays Jack, a man working for his family’s mussel-farming business in rural North Wales, an industry constantly under threat. The connection between Jack and Daniel is sensitively portrayed, like two men wooing each other from another era. But the strong performances, Felix Rösch’s beautiful score and, most of all, Walsh’s excellent use of location work very well.