When her volunteer firefighter husband goes missing during Maine's Great Fires of 1947, a pregnant Grace Holland finds her life irrevocably changed and is forced to face an uncertain future in a town that no longer exists.
After his wife, Sheila, abandons him, paramedic Peter Webster is left to raise their daughter alone, until Sheila contacts him nineteen years later, dredging up years of buried questions and making him wonder why their marriage unraveled.