As the water level rises by an isolated lakeside farm, so do suspicion and desperation of thetrio who find themselves stranded there.

The Raft of Medusa is a dream-like collageof visuals set to the soundtrack of a Simon Armitage radio drama based on a never realised screenplay by Derek Jarman, with whom Heslop was a close associate andcameraman. Jarman’s screenplay itself was inspired by Theodore Gericault’s painting by the same name.