Right around the first of May, a fog rolls in over the coast of Maine, completely covering the towns of Key Harbor and Levant Harbor. Abe Jordan has lived through many fogs just like this one; now in his eighties, he is left with little else but the memory of his wife and the anticipation for his own long sleep. Just as the fog rolls in, Morris Levant buys Abe's fishery out from under him, using his nephew Joshua to deliver the news. It is this encounter...