Jack is the confident prodigal son returned -- the Ivy-League educated city planner brought back home to reinvent the dying port town and sweep its skeletons beneath the rug. Turner is the local cub reporter who will cover the city's revitilization. Between them come Jack's beautiful wife Anne -- and artist with secrets of her own -- and his affable brother Harris, hired by Jack to remove the suspicious barrells of waste from Lakeland's broken heart.