Since Justin Campbell's disappearance four years ago, his family has been stuck in the grooves of grief, unable to save themselves let alone one another. His mother drives an hour each way to spend time rehabbing dolphins. His father has been having an affair. And his younger brother Griff just spends day after day skateboarding in the empty pool at the deserted motel.
And then the call from the police. Justin has been found and he is okay. Though missing for so long, he's only been held across the bay in Corpus Christi, Texas, less than 30 miles away. It is a miracle.
But instead of righting the imbalances within this struggling family, Justin's return only lays bare the effects of his trauma, threatening to snap the last threads that bind the Campbells to one another. As Justin's kidnapper is set to be charged for his crime and the town of Southport prepares to welcome back the missing boy at the annual summer festival, pressure (barometric and other) builds and resolves in a spectacular denouement.