Max, an advertising titan, has retired to Si Chaud, his vacation paradise in a Jamaican fishing village. He is afflicted with Alzheimer’s; his three children learn that his second wife, their stepmother, plans to sell the place and take him to Florida.

In 1966, Don Noel and his wife discovered, on the South Coast of Jamaica, an unspoiled, out-of-the-way village where most residents make their living fishing on the Pedro Bank 50 miles offshore – “far sea,” as the Treasure Beach fishermen call it.