When Jack Cartwright moves to the small town of Spring Lake he soon realises that there's something a little different about the town. Children swim in raincoats, old ladies play guitar while getting drunk in caves (and, on the odd occasion, skinny dip) and the most beautiful woman he's ever met pulls a shotgun on him at their first meeting. Maggie Tanner, the woman behind the trigger, finds Jack to be infuriatingly arrogant and obnoxious. So why...