Ranger Jack Wedloe brings his young nephew Mark to Heartbreak Bay National Forest, where Fog Benson has offered a $500 reward for the black bear he thinks is stealing his sheep. Finding Gentle Ben trapped in a mine hole and knowing that he could not

Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore, and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.