After working as head designer for Oscar de la Renta, Eugenia Ward started her own company fourteen years ago when she turned forty. With the fashion business in major downturn, she has recently suffered heavy losses, and Eugenia desperately needs new investors. At the same time, she is matriarch and guiding light to her five adult children, a divorced single mother for over a decade. While vacationing with her family at the beach, Eugenia meets Patrick Hughes, a successful real estate developer. Eugenia finds friendship with Patrick sailing on his yacht and begins to imagine a new beginning, independent of her roles as mother and entrepreneur. But as the family gathers for her daughter Gloria's wedding, tensions are running high, money may be running out, and a hurricane is looming on the horizon.