We Swim to the Shark

Georgie Codd is afraid of fish, in an ironic twist of nominative determinism that isn’t lost on her. But she’s really really scared of of fish, with visions of sharks appearing in the dining room, of nightmares of being stranded alone at sea. Granny Codd understands. She lives next to the sea, but won’t so much as paddle in it. Georgie’s boyfriend is supportive, even when she decides that the way to overcome her fear is to CBT her way out of it, to swim with the biggest shark she can find – a whale shark. But what is Georgie really afraid of? She quits her job, she goes in search of the whale shark, but it turns out there are no quick fixes here and the whale shark remains elusive while everything else starts to fall apart around her. Could Georgie be searching for meaning more than she is for the shark? And can she ever find it?