The relationship of star-crossed lovers Elizabeth Sutton and Edward Morgan founders off the coast of Bermuda with the shipwreck of the Sea Venture in the seventeenth century. Edward is seduced by the captain's daughter and trapped into an unhappy marriage, but he and his new wife continue the voyage to Virginia to rescue the starving Jamestown Colony.
Elizabeth, still in England and pregnant with Edward's child, receives Edward's letters telling of the shipwreck but knows nothing of his marriage. When her child is old enough, Elizabeth follows him as far as Bermuda. Will he return and the lovers be reunited, or will their eternally entwined souls search forever to fulfill their destiny?
