Shotlandiya, nachalo XX veka. Privychnaya tihaya zhizn' primorskogo gorodka neulovimo menyaetsya v tot den', kogda v domike na beregu selitsya yunaya Doroti, priekhavshaya rabotat' uchitel'nicey v mestnoy shkole. Kak ee poyavlenie vskolyhnet krohotnoe obshchestvo? Kakie radosti i nevzgody zhdut ee v etom holodnom vetrenom meste, omyvaemym vodami holodnogo morya? I chto podarit, a chto zaberet u Doroti eta nezyblemaya stihiya, takaya zhe nepostoyannaya, kak sama zhizn'? «Dar rybaka» – lirichnaya istoriya o lyubvi, utrate, boli i nadezhde. O tom, kak kazhdyy prozhivaet svoyu molchalivuyu tragediyu. O nastoyashchey zhizni so vsemi ee pechalyami i radostyami.
