Tess Corrigan is a popular politician. Originally from a coastal village, she now lives in St. John's with her husband and twelve-year-old son. Urged on by her mother-in-law, she decides to track her bigamous father down. Preoccupied with this and her political work, Tess has no inkling of trouble until a decision triggers a series of betrayals and revelations that forvever change her family and the village of The Cove.