Cardiff in the late 1800s is grimy, crowded and grey, and Ellen, a domestic, dreams of escaping her dreary life there for the sea. When she falls in love with Samuel, a ship’s cook from Barbados, she is able to fulfil her fantasy by running away with him on a ship bound for the bright excitement of San Francisco.
Life at sea is brutal and dangerous, but it is a place where they can be free … until circumstances force Ellen home, and the hardships of working-class life and racism begin to poison their lives.
Salt is based on the lives of Kean’s great-grandparents, who married in 1878. It is their love story.
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Lle brwnt a diflas yw Caerdydd yn 1878 i Ellen sy’n breuddwydio am ddianc o’i bywyd yn gwasanaethu. Mae’n syrthio mewn cariad gyda Samuel ac yn llwyddo i wireddu ei breuddwyd trwy redeg i ffwrdd gydag ef. Ond mae bywyd ar y môr yn beryglus a chreulon, a phan mae’n dychwelyd adref mae’n darganfod bod caledi bywyd y dosbarth gweithiol a hiliaeth yn dechrau gwenwyno eu bywydau.