Features fifteen-year-old Rowan, the daughter of foreign correspondents in Africa, who finds herself beached for a summer with her cousins near Tofino, BC. Desperate for a summer project, she camps on a neighbouring island to monitor the progress of an endangered group of sea otters, further threatened by the development plans of a real-estate agent trying to sell the property for tourism. Before summer is over Rowan learns a valuable lesson about the importance of telling a story not everyone wants to hear.