Fourteen years after her estranged husband and 4-yr-old boy drown at sea in a terrible storm, the still-shaken, still-troubled mother discovers (in a friend's vacation home-movie) that both ex-husband and now-18-year-old son are alive, the boat disaster faked so the father could abduct his unwitting son. Pulling herself together and out of her shell, the mother races to find them and to retrieve her son, before they disappear again