In a state of panic because of the night-time city activities of her teenage son, Lily decides to uproot herself and Sam from Manhattan to the safety of a small town on the Long Island coast. She becomes a reporter for the weekly paper, Sam enrols in high school, and for a while life proceeds as expected. But then, through unnerving circumstances, she spies a naked woman asleep in a summer house. And everything changes. There is a murder. Or is there? And there is a man. But he is married and Lily is guilt-ridden about her own divorce. Are people and events as they seem, or is Lily just perceiving her small town through big city eyes?