Chronicles the last voyage of the gypsum freighter SS Novadoc as she sailed from the Annapolis Basin into a raging nor'east storm in the Bay of Fundy in March 1947. Loaded with 4,000 tons of Nova Scotia gypsum, she foundered off Portland, Maine, taking all 24 crew members, 13 of them Nova Scotians, to their deaths. The story is told through the eyes and memories of those who lost family members on the Novadoc--the brothers, sisters, children, grandchildren, and friends of the young Nova Scotia men, many of them war veterans, and the two women who perished in the tragedy.