Over a decade ago, poet Alice Oswald began recording conversations with the people who live and work on the river Dart. In her subsequent poem, 'Dart', these records formed the life-models for characters in a sound-map of the river, a songline from the source to the sea. The book-length poem went on to win the prestigious T. S. Eliot Prize and become a national favourite. By combining the words of the poem with actual observations of real people, this film creates a rare and unforgettable portrait of a community, and follows the varying character of the river itself, from its mysterious source on high Dartmoor, to the sea at Dartmouth, and beyond.
—Anonymous