One evening while walking, Vanessa Epperson finds a foreign girl on the beach. The beginning of October is not conducive to swimming, and the girl is all wet, her only clothes - a T-shirt - are torn. Being a social worker, Vanessa cannot pass by. She takes the unfortunate woman to the hospital, and on the way asks what happened to her. This is how she learns about human trafficking on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Having no reason to doubt what she heard, Vanessa asks for help from Liam Goetz, an employee of the Drug Enforcement Administration, who was her first love...