The plot is obscure. It roughly portrays a young assistant who guards a lighthouse. Due to the desolate working environment and long-lasting loneliness, he has a mental disorder. He often feels that he has seen some strange phenomena due to hallucinations, such as mermaids, old men have sex with monsters on the top of the tower, etc. And, because of mental disorders, he forgot that he had been trapped on the island for a long time, and also reversed his name and the name of the murdered worker, calling himself the lumberjack's name "Winslow"...
Nova Scotia, Canada, the lighthouse keepers are two, the aged Thomas Wake and the new young Ephraim Winslow, who will be guarding the lighthouse for four weeks...
Thomas Wick ordered Winslow to be responsible for burning boilers, polishing bronzes, repairing clocks, and pouring chamber pots, while he was in charge of tower lights and cooking—the reason he was in charge of tower lights was that the sea was terrifying in the distance... The two took turns night shift...
Keeping the lighthouse in a desolate environment and living a lonely life, Winslow, despite his hard work, still incurs a reprimand from the old man...
The old man warns Winslow not to kill the seabird, or you will incur bad luck...
Winslow killed a seagull in anger on the last day of the construction period, when he could leave tomorrow... Immediately, the seaside wind suddenly changed, and the west wind turned sharply to the east. The old man said that this is the prelude to the storm, and I hope there will be no problems with the supply ship tomorrow...
At night, the old man celebrated Winslow's return home tomorrow with wine... After dinner, Winslow said that the two of them should take turns guarding the tower light according to the rules of lighthouse keeping, but the old man insisted that the tower light belonged to him, and he had the final say here. , Winslow must follow his arrangements... Winslow is bitter about this...
The next day, in the wind and rain, Winslow found a mermaid on the beach. The mermaid's lower body abalone was abnormally large, which scared Winslow away...
In the evening, due to the storm, the supply ship did not dock... To make matters worse, the storm caused the food to get wet, and the two had to implement food rationing... The old man told Winslow that there was a caretaker because of the storm. Trapped here for 7 months...
Just like last time, Winslow found the old man having sex with a monster at the top of the tower...
The continuous storm is maddening, and the two use alcohol to relieve their worries every day...
Once, Winslow fished out the fishing cage in the wind and rain, and found a one-eyed head inside—the old man's former assistant was the one-eyed dragon, and Winslow suspected that the one-eyed dragon was killed by the old man Vic...
Drunk, Winslow regretted the mistakes he made when he was a lumberjack before, facing the death of his co-worker Thomas, and letting Thomas die...
Winslow wanted to take a canoe to leave the island, but the boat was chopped to pieces by the old man Vic with an axe; when he returned to the house, the old man said that the wooden boat was chopped up by Winslow himself, and he wanted to kill him with an axe... …
The storm was even bigger, and the waves rushed into the house... In the tide in the house, Winslow accidentally saw the work log recorded by the old man, full of records of his work and inactivity, such as drunken duty, masturbating in the storage room Wait... Winslow angrily argues and scuffles with the old man Vic, the old man tells the shocking truth - claiming that Winslow is actually Thomas, Thomas has been insane and deceived himself, killing his co-worker while working as a lumberjack Winslow...
Winslow (or Thomas) beat the old man to death, then dragged the old man out and buried him alive like a dog... Unexpectedly, the old man was not dead, he struck the young man in the left arm with an axe; the young man took the axe and killed him Old man Vic.
After that, he took the key and got his wish to unlock the door on the top of the tower and enter the tower lamp room; then, he put his hand into the tower lamp and burned it in an abnormal state. The pain caused him to fall off the lamp tower, and the seagulls ate the body half dead...
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