One phone call is all it takes to lure real estate photographer Mallory Aldiss back to her family Rhode Island beach home. It's been 20 years since she's been gone - running from the scandal that destroyed her parents' marriage drove her and her two sisters apart and crushed her relationship with her first love. Mal's 13-year-old daughter Joy has never been to the place where Mal's life was shaped and is desperate to go. Fatherless she craves family. In just seven watershed days on the Rhode Island coast three women will test the bonds of sisterhood friendship and family and discover the role that love and memory plays in defining their lives.