Maisie Clara Cameron is the biological daughter of Rose Cameron and the adopted daughter of Ward Cameron. Maisie lives with one foot in the glamorous world of the Kooks and the other in the world of the down and out Pogues. At sixteen all she wants to do is spend the summer drinking and surfing with her friends. A hurricane triggers a sequence of events that will change not just Maisie's life forever but also the lives of everyone else in the Outer Banks.