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In late summer 1973, Michael Skid, the son of a well-to-do judge, returns home to New Brunswick's Miramichi River from his world travels. He rents a dilapidated farm and begins to spread the gospel of communal ideals, which he has absorbed during his sojourn in India. These notions go over well with impoverished siblings Madonna and Silver Brassaurd, but less well with Tom Donnerel, a young farmer, who humiliates Michael. Embarrassed, and seeking acceptance, Michael befriends ex-convict Everette Hatch, who, recognizing opportunity, exploits Michael's ideas to his advantage. Believing himself capable of understanding people different from himself, Michael fails to recognize that the ex-con is manipulating him - and so sets off a catastrophic chain of events in the community.
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Before directing and co-writing
The Bay of Love and Sorrows, his
feature-film directorial debut, Tim Southam made several highly acclaimed short dramas and films. These include the television drama The Tale of Teeka, based on the celebrated play L'Histoire de l'oie by Michel Marc Bouchard. The film won the Banff Rockie and Telefilm Canada awards, three Prix Gémeaux Awards, including Best Dramatic Program and Best Director, and the Golden Spire Award for Best Television Drama at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Southam also wrote and directed the drama/performance film Satie and Suzanne, which received
a Grammy nomination for Best Long-Form Video, and the Genie-nominated documentary Drowning in Dreams. 
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