In very broad terms, it could be said that The Arrivals taps into and explores the visual language of the specimen while trying to plot and chart the social history of a group of rabbits once released onto a Sub-Antarctic island. The story of these rabbits is remarkable in that they survived adversity, isolation, and almost total destruction, to live on as a distinctive animal group. So distinct, in fact, that some now claim they are the world's rarest domestic rabbit breed.