After a lifetime of minding her own business, eighty-four-year-old Ida starts watching the lobstermen at the dock across from her house. What she sees as the summer progresses makes her concerned, then afraid, for one of them—so much so that realizes she must get involved. But will she be taken seriously before it's too late?

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