A bronze sculpture of a family clinging to a raft in a stormy sea. The central figure is a half-naked man, holding a sheet aloft in his raised right hand, calling for help. Arranged around him are the figures of his wife and three children. His wife is shown leaning over and kissing their infant son. To the left, is the daughter, her raised arm held in her father's left hand. At the rear is the prone figure of a youth, the elder son, holding his breast. Parts of the raft are visible in the waves which make up the base. 'Adrift' was Manchester's first modern figurative outdoor sculpture. It was the work of the Irish-born sculptor, John Cassidy. Cassidy took as his theme the changes and sorrows experienced by human beings, illustrating this by a shipwrecked family clinging to a raft on the ocean at the very moment when there is the possibility of rescue.