A woman discovers the son she thought had drowned is alive and well, living with the man who kidnapped him.

Law student Kristen Sheppard drives her husband Quinn Halloran, who had hoped to start a new life together on the Florida Keys, to despair, stubbornly preparing a divorce. One of the monthly weekends he has with their 4 year-old son Mark, his sail yacht Ocean Dreamer reports losing a mast and is declared lost at sea without much hope of a survivor. Fourteen years later, now an attorney and remarried to Steve Collins, she recognizes on friends' Caribbean holiday video an allegedly Canadian father John Williams and his son Matthew running a yacht, Phoenix, as Caribbean Dive Adventures for tourists on the island Santa Alicia as Quinn and presumes the bright athletic boy to be their son Mark. Despite flying in without a passport, she is allowed in. The Australian-born hotel owner Patrick is helpful. $400 buys her a dream day at sea with the charming hunk, who even has fond memories of his kind mother but believes she died in a fire when he was three, reason for dad to move with him to a new Caribbean country every few years, while seeing to his schooling, to start up a new business and sell it with a nice profit. However, police officer Bodden tips the popular Willams men about her story, so dad urges Matt to leave permanently for Salt Cay immediately.—KGF Vissers

Fourteen years after her estranged husband and 4-yr-old boy drown at sea in a terrible storm, the still-shaken, still-troubled mother discovers (in a friend's vacation home-movie) that both ex-husband and now-18-year-old son are alive, the boat disaster faked so the father could abduct his unwitting son. Pulling herself together and out of her shell, the mother races to find them and to retrieve her son, before they disappear again....—producers