 Self-made millionaire Ken Jorgenson vacations with his wife and teenage daughter on Pine Island, Maine, where -- some 20 years earlier -- he d worked as a lifeguard. Jorgenson now resumes a romance with island resident Sylvia Hunter who is trapped in a marriage as loveless as Jorgenson s. Scandal erupts when word of this romance becomes public, but it serves to draw together Jorgenson s daughter and Sylvia s teenage son who are appalled by their parents  mistakes and determined not to repeat them.