Vera Waters comes to Northport Harbor to care for her arthritic, handicapped Aunt Harriet who has come to live in the family's Seacrest Hotel overlooking the rocky cliffs above the Atlantic Ocean. The two neighboring houses on Massachusetts' seacoast of Northport Harbor seem lost in the fog, cut off from the rest of the world. The houses belong to Vera Waters' aunt-and now there is a strange new family who has come to live beside the hotel shrouded...