Tanner Olsen has lived his life on a boat. Having lost his mother at the age of five, Tanner has grown an unspoken connection with the sea. In a twist of events a fatal storm takes the life of his father, and Tanner is once again left with loss. Anna Johnson has lived a very lonley and boring sixteen years on a island alone with her father, the island drunk. during a rageing storm a strange boy is washed ashore.