In 1770, two families' destinies, the Tucker's and the Grindle's, collided in Maine Province setting off a feud that shaped their descendants' futures for generations to come. Simmering below the surface for more than two-hundred years, the feud erupted in the autumn of 1999 when a lobsterman disappeared while working his lobster traps. Although the residents of a small, quiet New England village struggled to keep their town from falling apart; infidelity, possible murder, blackmail, drugs, betrayal, embezzlement and sexual assault came together in a perfect storm, shaking the village to its foundations and eventually resulting in its unraveling, its "Undoing."