Its a splendid moon-filled night in Coleys Point in 1926. Young Jacob Mercer has returned home to the tiny and remote Newfoundland fishing village, desperate to win back his former sweetheart, Mary Snow. But Mary has become engaged to wealthy Jerome McKenzie, and is still hurt and bewildered by Jacobs abrupt departure for Toronto a year earlier. Even to speak to Jacob will put Marys wedding plans in jeopardy. Stubborn and independent, she is determined never to forgive Jacob