Revolves around the lives of a troubled family forced ro relocate in the 1960s from their home on one of the smaller islands off the coast of Newfoundland. The torment of the uprooting is both shared and individual.Before the government's resettlement program, they had lived in a tiny village in one of nine houses in a cove, seven of which were torn from the land and towed behind small fishing boats to a larger community across the bay.