The instantly immortal Rihanna lyric “We found love in a hopeless place” comes to mind more than once in “On the Sea,” and perhaps unfairly so. The severe, slate-skied stretch of northern Welsh coastline on which Helen Walsh‘s romantic drama plays out may be menaced by the sea and unvisited by the sun, but it’s rather lovely in its own forbidding way. For born-and-bred mussel farmer Jack (Barry Ward), however, it’s a place of ever-narrowing opportunities — both professional, as his modest family business is crowded out by larger fishing enterprises, and personal. Longstanding marriage in a town where everybody knows his name has put paid to desires he’s
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