When Boston journalist Lizzie Martin returns to her Cape Cod hometown for Christmas, she's faced with more than cocoa, cookies, and Santa arriving on a boat. Her ex-fiance, Jack, is also in town, her dad's newspaper is struggling, her town is losing all its young people to opportunities and more affordable housing off-Cape, and climate change is rapidly eroding the coastline. Can two people who haven't spoken to each other in three years find their way back to each other, work together to help change their town's future and in doing so perhaps change their own?
