 The Fowlers are a normal family in Maine. Matt is the town doctor and loves to fish, his wife, Ruth, is the school s choir leader, and their son, Frank, is home from his first year of college. Frank is in love with Natalie, a young mother who isn t quite divorced yet from her ex-husband, Richard Strout, whose family runs the local cannery. It makes Richard s blood run cold to see his wife running around with another man. And soon, an unthinkable tragedy happens that will tear the Fowlers apart...