Noah McManus is a young politician who loses a high-powered job when his boss is entangled in a scandal during a Senate race. Adding to his grief, he loses his fiance the same day. Feeling overwhelmed, Noah takes his dog and escapes to a small town in Massachusetts called Harpswell. There, he falls for a bookstore owner and the town itself, and he begins to find a sense of purpose and belonging that has been absent from his life.