Na dalekom ostrove zhivut smotritel' mayaka Tom SHerburn i ego zhena Izabel'.Oni molody i strastno lyubyat drug v druga, no u kazhdogo v dushe kroetsya strah. Toma terzayut koshmarnye vospominaniya o voyne, a Izabel' ponimaet, chto ee mechtam o materinstve ne suzhdeno sbyt'sya.No odnazhdy k beregu pribivaet yalik, v kotorom oni nahodyat novorozhdennuyu devochkuTak nachinaetsya istoriya, pokorivshaya serdca millionov chitateley.Istoriya zagadok, tayn i neozhidannyh povorotov sud'by.Kakoe zhe reshenie primut Tom i Izabel' i chem ono dlya nih obernetsya?CHudom - ili tragediey?..