Y/N arrives in southern Louisiana expecting to document a disappearing coastline for her environmental journalism project — a summer of interviews, photographs, and careful distance before returning to her polished New England life. Instead, she finds herself tangled in humid air, storm warnings, muddy water, and Cade Landry: a local boatman with saltwater in his veins and an understanding of the wetlands so intimate it makes her feel like she’s been looking at nature through glass her entire life. As hurricane season closes in, the line between observer and participant begins to blur. What starts as a story about erosion becomes something far more personal — long days in the marsh, slow-burning tension, power outages lit by candles, shared silences on dark water, and the terrifying realization that some places — and some people — can change you so deeply they make your old life feel unfamiliar when you try to return to it.