On Big Sawyer island, life is as steady as the routine of
the lobstermen who leave with the tide each morning and
return with their haul each night. But for forty-year-old
New Yorker Julia Bechtel, life and what's important in it
are about to be forever altered when she survives a
terrible boat accident en route to the island. Now, in the
company of her aunt and daughter, Julia finds herself
feeling strangely connected to the tragedy's other
survivors -- Noah, a divorced lobsterman, and Kim, a young
woman rendered mute since her rescue -- and newly outraged
at the state of her marriage to a domineering man. Seeing
the world with new eyes, Julia vows to embrace life with
all of its joys and uncertainties. And the journey begins
on Big Sawyer....