Rachel & Annie

Rachel & Annie is a love story without explicit sex or violence that deals with the profound impact other people have on our lives. The story opens when a United States Coast Guard helicopter responding to a distress signal discovers a disabled sailboat in a storm on the Gulf of Maine. Aboard are an injured man Tom OConnor and his granddaughter Rachel. Tom is a retired lawyer who opted out of society to cruise to Europe with Anna his wife and childhood sweetheart in their sailboat nicknamed Annie. When his wife dies Toms grief is inconsolable. He becomes a recluse wandering the Atlantic coast and following the seasons from Nova Scotia to the Florida keys. His boat assumes aspects of the persona of his dead wife who returns to share his lonely existence as a ghost of his imagination. The tragic death of his daughter in an automobile accident leads Tom to kidnap his granddaughter Rachel. Together they sail Annie to Nova Scotia during a summer on the lam from the authorities. During this odyssey which culminates in the storm that disables Annie and threatens Toms life he and his granddaughter establish an insightful relationship which helps resolve their respective despondency and leads to fulfilment based on mutual interdependence and love.