Tom and Isabel lived on an island as Tom's job was to man the lighthouse and monitor the ocean view. It was a quiet place to live, but they had each other which was all they needed. As time passed, they tried to have children but were left with two devastating miscarriages. The first miscarriage left the couple disheartened and the second destroyed Isabel. All she wanted was to be a mom and she felt this dream to be impossible.
One day Tom saw what looked like to be an abandoned boat wash upon shore which would soon reveal itself to have a man (dead on arrival) and crying baby. He called for Isabel who came running over and whisked the baby immediately to console her. After talking and arguing about what to do, they decided to keep the baby and buried the man. Isabel convinced Tom to go against his judgement and to raise the baby as their own. Tom would do anything for his wife and this decision, he knew was wrong, but had to do for her.
After Tom, Isabel, and their daughter Lucy became accustomed to their life together, Tom accidentally met Lucy's real mom back on land and heard the terrible story of how her husband and baby were missing and presumed to be dead. Hannah, Lucy's biological mother had a feeling her daughter could still be alive and held on to all hope of finding her as it was all she had left. This crushed Tom as he couldn't be responsible for a mother losing her child.
Tom began sending signs to Hannah that her daughter was still alive and eventually, Hannah was able to find her daughter. This also meant the daughter Isabel had raised and loved as her own for 4 years would have be literally grabbed from her reach, leaving her heart broken and hating her husband. Poor, little Lucy did not know her real mother and wanted nothing to do with her which caused Hannah to begin to think maybe she should give her back as she would do anything to make her daughter happy. Meanwhile, Tom was in jail for kid-knapping and refused to allow any charges to be brought against his wife. His fate would be in Isabel's hands who still loathed him. Would Isabel be able to think past her own heartache to save her husband, and would Hannah return her only daughter whom she once lost to the family who raised her? These questions pose the true difficulty of making choices based on what we want versus what we should do.
This film was well done. The story line was engaging and the acting authentic. I must warn any who have struggled to have children or suffered miscarriages that it will be hard to watch. The scene when Isabel realizes she is loosing her second baby before it is born is still vivid in my mind. The ending was definitely not predictable which was one of the characteristics I liked about this movie. I really couldn't tell which way they would take it. Just don't forget the tissues when you see it.
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