Taylor Colby and his childhood sweetheart, Laura, abandoned their Nova Scotia coastal village home for a life in the high-ocatne world of rock music in California. Now, after Laura's drug-related death, Taylor has returned to his roots to live once again with his noble but isolated boat-builder father. Complicating matters further, Taylor's mother, who has been battling cancer, attmepts to reconcile with both her husband and son whom she deserted decades earlier. As Taylor grapples with family dysfunction, he becomes involved with Jillian, a feminist professor from Philadelphia, and her troubled twelve-year-old son, who are also on the run from the past they can't seem to escape. 02 02 When Taylor returns to his Nova Scotia village to live with his boat-builder father, he grapples with family dysfunction and faces a past he can’t seem to escape. When Taylor returns to his Nova Scotia village to live with his boat-builder father, he grapples with family dysfunction and faces a past he can’t seem to escape..