It is the end of the summer. The tourists have already gone & now the sun is abandoning the Lake Districts damp valleys. Only a lone camper remains enjoying the quiet. He plans to stay just long enough to prepare for a trip to the East. But then the owner of the campsite asks him to paint a fence & he innocently obliges. Soon other odd jobs pile up until little by little he becomes ensnared in the ominous out-of-season.