The year is 1969 and the American War in Vietnam has unleased it's horrors on the world. A French family is massacred in the Vietnamese jungle, and a treasure of unbelievable monetary and spiritual value vanishes.
Soon after, the impact of the events in Vietnam are felt on the other side of the globe when a thief, an adulteress, a kidnapper, and a murderer find themselves on a collision course. The point of impact is Cape Cod, the Outer Cape of Edward Hopper, Eugene O'Neil, and Norman Mailer, where a tragedy framed in "Cape light" plays out on the wind-swept beaches.