As a corporate 'undertaker' for a mergers and acquisitions firm in New York, Carol MacLean travels from factory to factory, firing blue-collar workers who remind her of her father and the kids she grew up with. On a trip that takes her to a desperate fishing town in Massachusetts, Carol gets a call from the office: 'You're fired.' Those words shake Carol to her core. But with the help of the townspeople and a charming local fisherman, she begins to understand the power of life's second acts.
