When a hurricane sweeps over his hometown island, Kip Thierry’s vacation spot business is smashed into pieces. He spends all his savings and takes out additional loans to repair all the damage. After a year of putting the island in order, Kip’s business reopens and his first guests are the Jensen family, five women from a book club, and Henry and Cecilia Blaze. Henry is an old, wealthy man in extremely sick health, and the other guests are bothered to see the dreary state of his life. With his business hanging by a thread, Kip grows desperate to get rid of the Blazes and even approaches them about leaving. Henry already suspected it and explains that he used to be a regular guest on the island and came again to support Kip’s business. They start talking more regularly, and Henry tells Kip about his business advents in India and his exciting life before getting sick. He reveals that he is gay, and Kip realizes that the disease he suffers from is AIDS. Henry admits the real reason he came to the island is to die peacefully, and he needs Kip’s assistance to do so. Kip is horrified by the idea of killing him, but Henry tries to explain it as an act of mercy rather than business. After the other guests leave, Henry invites all of his friends from India to the island to celebrate the end of his life. By Henry’s request, they all promise to come back regularly with their families. Among the friends who come, Sanjiv Bhargava is Henry’s closest friend. Sanjiv reveals to Kip that he and Henry were lovers for years before he got sick. On an early morning, Kip sees Sanjiv wading in the ocean with Henry in his arms. He knows that he means to drown Blaze but ultimately cannot do it. Kip goes to them and is the one to lower Henry into the water. When the police come later, Kip tells them he drowned.