Are there really second chances? It is the 1970s and Mady Glazer is
trying to hold herself and her three children together after the
shocking death of her charismatic husband, David, in a plane crash. When
they finally go on vacation to Racer's Cove at the eastern end of Long
Island, they meet Hans Panneman, a bachelor and potter, who was brought
up in Africa, whose father was an avid Nazi, and who escaped his earlier
life by settling here and leading the quietest of lives. They could not
be more different, more representative of "the other," as Mady is
reminded by her extended Jewish family when she finds herself drawn to
this quiet, puzzling man. Yet, love and ease sometimes come where we
least expect them.