Synopsis.
On the highest point of an island, in a house clinging to the edge of a cliff, live Mary Rose and Harold Grapes, a couple still mourning the death of their son thirty-five years before. Weighed down by decades of grief and memories, the Grapes have never moved past the tragedy.
Then, on the eve of eviction from the most beautiful and dangerously unstable perch in the area, they’re uprooted by a violent storm. The disbelieving Grapes and their home take a free-fall slide into the white-capped sea and float away.
As the past that once moored them recedes and disappears, Mary Rose and Harold are delivered from decades of sorrow by the ebb and flow of the waves. Ahead of them, a light shimmers on the horizon, guiding them toward a revelatory and cathartic new engagement with life, and all its wonder.
Detailed Plot
Harold, Mary Rose, and their son Dylan had a dream: To build a ship and sail away from their remote island homeland to explore the world.
Sailing home late one night, Harold and Dylan find themselves caught in a violent storm that capsizes their little boat.
The light on Harold and Mary Rose went out with the death of their son. They abandon their dream and use the under-construction ship to build a house on a cliff overlooking the sea.
35 years later
With the passing of time, the cliff where they built the house erodes to the point where they must evict the property.
The night before the eviction, a violent storm —too similar to the one Dylan died 35 years before— strikes the island again, starting a chain of tragic, or perhaps miraculous events that no one could ever have imagined.
Upon awakening, they are shocked to find themselves adrift in the middle of the ocean.
With no way to navigate, and water leaking in from every side, the couple, battle not only to survive the brutal elements but the unbridled ghosts from their past as well.
The temperatures fall sharply, and magical lights begin to appear in the sky as an indication of the uncertain destination they are heading to.
Trapped in ice, starving and on the verge of freezing to death, they are found by a girl named Kirima, who escorts them to the safety of her tribe’s camp.
The tribe offers to help them return to their people, and their old life.
But while recovering from their ordeal, Kirima drowns in an ice fishing accident and old wounds reopen…but observing how Kirima’s parents deal with grief teaches Harold and Mary Rose an important lesson.
Finally, the blame and regret that had for so long anchored their lives, melts away.
