This is the story of three women who live, or once lived, on Sable, an island in Nova Scotia. Lost in the Atlantic Ocean, it contains a lifesaving station and a population of wild horses. The accounts of three women from three different periods, 1900, 1950 and today, interweave to paint a picture of a storm-swept, isolated island. Out there, time passes slowly, the shipwrecks and signs of man gradually disappearing beneath the sand. All that remains are the memories of three women, united through time by their presence on the island.