One day, a family is paddle-boating on a lake by their house when a dangerous lightning storm starts up. The father and mother paddle frantically to get to shore, while the children keep laughing and joking around, unaware of the danger of the situation. They make it back in one piece, and the memory becomes something that they laugh about for years to come. They had always been an adventurous family, their time together speckled with disappearances and danger. Unfortunately, the mother comes to resent her husband’s recklessness, so they divorce. The children move between their parents’ homes, hearing the criticism each parent wields against the other. In times of strife, they remember that afternoon on the lake, wondering how accurate the memory really is.