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Two women on the lonely island "Sable Island" - a narrow strip of sand and grass in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean, where hundreds of feral horses live: While conservationist Zoe Lucas has been living and researching here for decades, the island is still unknown to filmmaker Jacquelyn Mills. Animals, plants, water, washed-up garbage: Zoe collects, sorts, archives, draws, measures, and maps a wide variety of occurrences on Sable Island, tracing a place that, despite being fully graspable and documented, continues to elude her. On a cinematic search for traces between 16mm film, sand, horse hair and raging soundscape, Geographies of Solitude finds a way to let the island tell its own story and to carefully record various encounters: between the island and its inhabitants, film material and salt water, loneliness and closeness, the filmmaker and the researcher, between Zoe and Jacquelyn.