Bernadette Gallagher is a young woman trying to pick up the pieces after having her heart broken, yet again, by the man she has loved since high school. Needing an escape, she finds solace in restoring the one place not tainted by the heartache her long-time love has inflicted upon her - a tiny bungalow nestled on the shores of Rockaway Beach where she spent her summers as a child. Bringing the bungalow that had once been her grandparents' summer retreat to its former glory is the task that Bernadette challenges herself with in hopes that she will be able to heal her heart and forget about the person responsible for breaking it. Fate however has other plans when she meets her landlady's handsome grandson. Their budding friendship seems to slowly start the healing process and Bernadette allows herself to start moving on from her past with the man in her present. However when the very reason for her retreating to the Rockaways returns in full force, Bernadette finds herself facing her past and deciding between who will be the one to have a place in her future.