Ten days after an air-sea disaster, an island fisherman struggles to recover from the aftermath of his participation in the rescue-turned-recovery operation of a downed jetliner. Aaron’s mental fragility is compounded by his wife's recent decision to take their special needs son to live off island so that he will get better schooling. Aaron, determined to regain his mental equilibrium, boards his small boat and heads out to where he feels most at peace, on the ocean. When, hours later, he returns to shore with a young mute woman the question foremost in everyone’s mind is, who is she, but more disconcerting to Aaron’s mother, Pearl, and Amanda, could Aaron really believe he has found a lone survivor.
