Christmas, 2016. Toby and Angelica are back at their father's farm. He is at the end of the worst year of his life. Struggling in every way, and in desperate need of help with work, Frank hires Jerzy, a Polish worker, who now lives on the farm with his pregnant wife, Irena. Previous worker Damien convinces himself that his home and job have been stolen from him by migrant workers. Jerzy and Irena keep noticing Damien's menacing presence, but Frank, Toby and Angelica are too wrapped up in their own problems to help; tensions to run high as they try to fi nd a new normal. Examining the cultural fractures in Britain at the end of 2016 and the impact of the EU referendum on rural farming communities, Small Rivers explores grief, trust, national identity and xenophobia, asking how we can reconcile the relationships between people and place.