The young Rachel Vinrance leaves England on her father’s ship, the Euphrosyne, on a voyage to South America. Despite being accompanied by her father and her aunt and uncle, Helen and Ridley Ambrose, the passage leads to Rachel’s awakening, both as a woman and as an individual. As the ship is wracked by storms, she finds herself romantically entangled with Richard Dalloway, an encounter that leaves her troubled and confused. Upon arrival in Santa Marina, Rachel strikes off alone to contemplate her identity, and finds finds herself with the aspiring novelist Terence Hewet. As the emerging romance between the two is complicated by their disagreements about gender and art, another storm, and tragedy, appear on the horizon.


瑞秋．凡倫斯年紀輕輕便跟著她父親的船歐佛若星號離開英格蘭，一路航行前往南美洲。即使和父親、姑姑海倫與姑丈萊德利同行，這趟旅程讓瑞秋的自我開始覺醒，是身為一名女人與一個獨立個體的自覺。就在他們的船遇上暴風雨時，她與理查．達洛威浪漫邂逅，這場偶然的相遇令她感到心煩不已。當船隻一抵達聖塔瑪琳娜，瑞秋開始獨自思索、探尋自我身分，她與充滿理想的小說家泰倫斯．希威特相戀，卻發現彼此存在一些問題。隨著他們對性別和藝術抱持的觀點出現分歧，兩人之間的浪漫愛情也越趨複雜，而潛藏的風暴與悲劇正悄悄展開序幕。