When Marcie Malone drives from Georgia to the southwestern shore of Florida without a plan and wakes up in a stranger's home, she doesn't seem to know anymore. Heartbroken over the man she thought she could count on, Marcie leaves him behind, along with her whole life, and finds she has nowhere to go. Herman Flint has seen just about everything in his seventy years living in a blue-collar Florida town, but the body collapsed on the beach outside his window is something new. As the unlikely pair slowly copes with the damages life has wrought, Marcie and Flint have to find a way to move forward with the people they care about most.