During a bad storm that pounds the island of Nantucket, the Hackett brothers learn their childhood house is in danger of being demolished. They approach counsilman Roy who gives them no recourse, so they head to the house to reminice. Bad memories surface interlaced with flashbacks to their childhood. so they take to the house in anger. Fay comes bursting in exclaiming the historical register has found a reason to preserve the house, but only after major damage by Brian and Joe and Helen and Lowell and Roy.