The Hide (2008)

On the windswept Suffolk mudflats creaks a birdhide inside which hovers Roy Tunt a prematurely aged mildly obsessivecompulsive birder With one more sighting the elusive sociable plover he will have twitched the entire British List Tunt has his shortwave radio packedlunch and a portrait of his exwife Sandra for company Suddenly in the midst of a conversation with Sandras portrait the hide door blows open and a bedraggled stranger unshaven edgy and bloodied introduces himself as Dave John a fugitive from the storm After a tense introduction the two men discover that they have a good deal in common sharing sandwiches tea and personal exchanges which are frank poignant and often funny As the two men begin to form a close bond news of a police manhunt sets them both on edge driving their fragile relationship to a tragic conclusion