Jack Porter (Nick Wechsler) is a blue-collar son of a dock worker who’s spent his entire adult life helping his father manage the Stowaway Tavern. He also owns a boat he named "Amanda." A local social misfit/rich tech genius named Nolan Ross (Gabriel Mann) wants to buy it, but Jack can’t wait to sail away from his current life. Unfortunately, his dad’s financial woes force him to put those plans on hold and sell his boat to Nolan.

Emily purchases an invitation to Victoria Grayson’s high-end Memorial Day party through her party-planning friend, Ashley Davenport (Ashley Madekwe). She later meets her landlord, Lydia Davis, on the beach. Lydia actually used to work for Emily’s father. She testified against him in the trial that sent him to prison. Emily’s dad, David Clarke, worked for Conrad Grayson (Henry Czerny), the CEO of Grayson Global.

David Clarke was accused of channeling money to terrorists who downed a plane killing everyone onboard. Emily was just a little girl when they came to take her dad away. The one face she remembers seeing clearly that night is the woman he loved. It’s the same woman who framed and betrayed him: Victoria Grayson.