When her idol, handsome teen actor Brad Langley, comes to her town in the Florida Keys to shoot a movie, fourteen-year-old Jess gets a job as an extra and is shocked that he appears to be a temperamental brat.
In 1935 on the Florida Key of Matacumbe, thirteen-year-old Jake makes new friends during an idyllic summer, only to have everything change when a hurricane threatens the island.