She's known as the crazy woman who lives in the rambling house on a bluff in Nantucket, but Nan doesn't care what people think. When she discovers the money she thought would last forever is running out, and she may lose her beloved house, she has to make drastic changes. Slowly people start moving in to the house. There is Daniel, a separated father of two girls, struggling to find out who he really is; and Daff, the single mother of a truculent teenager who blames her for the divorce. Her son comes home for the summer, and then an unexpected visitor throws all their lives upside down.