Grieving the loss of her fiancé, 23-year-old visual artist Jewel accepts an invitation to live with friends in Carmel, to paint by the sea, heal her heart, and realize the dream of an exhibition of her canvases in a fine art gallery.
A young woman with a daughter must start a new life where no one from her past can find them before her husband gets out of jail and tries to kill her again. She finds a new job in a new town, along with a new passion for her supervisor, but she’s not as safe from her past as she thinks.
A rebellious 15-year-old abandons her baby to work a job in Portugal, leaving the child to be raised by its grandmother. Across fifteen years and two continents, three generations of mothers and daughters navigate fraught relationships, and define ‘family’ on their own terms.