At the age of twenty-nine, Sydney has already been
once divorced and once widowed. Trying to find her footing again,
she has answered an advertisement to tutor the teenage daughter of a
well-to-do couple as they spend a sultry summer in their oceanfront
New Hampshire cottage. But when the Edwards' two grown sons, Ben and
Jeff, arrive at the beach house, Sydney finds herself caught up in a
destructive web of old tensions and bitter divisions. As the
brothers vie for her affections, the fragile existence Sydney has
rebuilt is threatened.