The year is 1943, and in the sleepy little town of Orange, Texas, thousands of desperate jobseekers have taken up new residence, pursuing steady employment at the wartime shipyards. In the midst of all the growing hustle and bustle, Bea Meade finds her life suddenly shattered when her philandering husband announces his intentions to leave her for another woman. To make matters worse, Bea is the new mother of an infant son, forcing her to take a job as a riveter at a shipyard to support both herself and her baby boy in light of her husband’s cruel abandonment. Faced with a host of unforeseen challenges - including a no-good husband, workplace sexism, and haunted memories of her past, Bea struggles to summon the strength to endure the tumultuous storms of life that threaten to darken any hope of a bright future...