It's lobster season at The Shores, a fishing village on a point of land that?s been cut off from The Island in a storm surge. Parker, a collector of art and antiquities, has moved there with his partner Guillaume, a chef just out of rehab. Hyacinth a website writer looking for lobster recipes for a client's newsletter. She also needs a speaker for the Women?s Institute meeting. Enter Camilla, founder of the Lobster Liberation Legion, spouting crustacean right-to-life rhetoric. The legion sets about disrupting the season by "tickling" lobsters -- stroking them into insensibility and thus freeing them from their traps.