
The 1960s. A pair of teenagers in love, living on an island in New England, run away from adult supervision. Sam Shakusky is a Boy Scout, an orphan who was abandoned by his foster parents and has become an outcast among the other Boy Scouts because of his difficult character, and Susie Bishop is a withdrawn twelve-year-old unstable girl who lives with dreams of magical worlds. After the discovery of the disappearance, the local sheriff begins an investigation, and the Boy Scout camp counselor organizes a search party.