A mundane married couple vacations at a tropical resort, where the husband becomes increasingly curious about a strange mother and son duo.

During World War II, a young woman from Florida stays on the private island of a woman who enjoys her romantic company—but around their house in paradise, trouble and unrest brew between the women and among the native islanders.

Amidst her uneventful busy life, a woman decides to take a risk to against her conservative mother’s wishes. In doing so, she welcomes the exciting attention of someone new into her life.

While on a cruise, a retired man and his wife, along with a group of older tourist, take a bus in the scorching heat to go on a nature walk for a day trip. When they get to their destination, the tourists get held up at gun point and robbed, but the man’s ex-Marine training kicks in and he retaliates.

On Christmas vacation in Florida, a ten-year-old boy and his family take a fishing boat out to the Gulf of Mexico, where the boy's father hopes to catch the first tarpon of the year. While the boy is sensitive and observant, his father looks for ways to push his son to be more strong and brave.

In a series of commentaries on the human condition — life, truth, happiness, death — a spinster sister takes in her dead sister’s children; a man is entranced by the endless waves which roll and crash in the ocean; a carpenter wrestles with the burden of being everyone’s confidante; a dying railroad crossing watchman shares a simple but complex wisdom.

A tourist from England complains about his boring trip to California but enjoys experiences around town facilitated by his zany friends.

In a dystopian world, the red water ocean attracts tourists but repels residents. When a couple moves from Boston to the somewhat abandoned shore, strange things begin to happen.

Attempting to have fun for once, a teenage girl witnesses death at an oceanside beach party.

When a young girl mysteriously disappears on a family's beach vacation, two parents and siblings retrace their memories for clues.