The Captain's Daughter

Eliza Barnes is a stay-at-home mom in a community of yachts and country clubs in Massachusetts. She grew up around boats, but working lobster boats in a small fishing town in Maine, so she has an uneasy relationship with the wealth and privilege she married into. As the summer begins Eliza's father is diagnosed with a deadly illness, her daughters are entering their sulky, rebellious teen years, her husband is struggling to start his own business, and her mother-in-law throws around her wealth like a weapon. Through a series of fast-paced domestic events Eliza is forced to confront and rethink her life, dealing with issues like an old flame who still generates a spark, but who is kind and generous to her dying father, and a teenager in her old town who faces issues that Eliza dealt with at the same age. Moore (The Admissions) focuses on relationships, loss, and change though the eyes of warm and likable everywoman Eliza.