After painfully losing her three children, a young wife is filled with joy when she and her husband find a newborn baby in an abandoned boat. She cajoles her husband into keeping the little girl, reasoning that she must be an orphan needing their help. But when they unexpectedly meet the biological mother years later, they must also meet the consequences of their choices and the truth they’ve desperately tried to ignore.

The year is 1926, and a quiet community on the island of Australia is recovering from the death and grief caused by a war that swallowed the world. It is in this setting that one man meets a woman. They fall in love. Their small family begins living on an isolated isle off the coast, guarding a lighthouse. Away from the eyes of anyone they’ve ever known, left to their own devices, they will make a decision and cross a line to a place from which they can never return. 

Tabitha is a woman with a plan. She’s 33 years old, moving her way up the corporate ladder at her television anchor job, and is dating the man of her dreams. But Tabitha quickly realizes that her life may not be going to plan when her doctor gives her unexpected news that forces her to look hard at herself and her values. Will she pull it together in time to save the most precious thing she’s ever wanted? Or will her ideal future be snatched from her grasp forever?