In 1939, everything changes for Anne Girl when outsider John Nelson
grounds his sailboat on the shores, into Anne Girl's skiff, and into her
life during a rare storm in the Alaskan fishing village of Nushagak.
When Anne Girl and her mother Marulia find their skiff flattened by
John's boat, Anne Girl decides she both hates and wants him. Thus begins
a generational saga of strong, stubborn Yup'ik women living in a village
that has been divided between the new and the old, the bluff side and
the missionary side, the cannery side and the subsistence side.