Martin Best is a brilliant surgeon who abruptly leaves his illustrious career in Boston to become the general practitioner in a quaint East Coast fishing village where he spent summers as a child. Unfortunately, Martin's blunt and borderline rude bedside manner rubs the quirky, needy locals the wrong way, and he quickly alienates the town, even though he's all they’ve got.

Two years after escaping a violent attack, a teenage girl must defend herself against a domestic terrorist cell.

At the 2004 Republican Nation Convention, love blooms between a Republican delegate and a Democrat protesting the event.