Gwen Matthews walked away from her three year relationship with Jim. She and her widowed mother move to an Island off the coast of Maine. Once there she began her new job at the Island Clinic. She learns the harshness of the sea takes it's toll. David a tall and handsome man with a complicated back ground, comes into her life. Circumstances seem to want to keep them Apart, but her mother is determined they will get together. A terrible tragedy comes to the Island Will they survive or will they have to move back to the mainland.