Caffeine addict Mitchell hasn't slept for three days. On a late night search for coffee he reluctantly takes over security duties at a 24-hour supermarket.

While navigating life with his hyper-protective mother along the enigmatic Outer Banks of North Carolina's coast (site of the first attempted English settlement in the New World), conflicted teen Loren learns of his expecting girlfriend's ambivalence toward him. After a near tragic accident, he must learn to assemble the broken pieces into a stronger, wiser form and approach a more worldly consciousness. A searchlight cast upon the earliest traces of America and the mystery of settlers vanished, Lost Colony scans a once virgin watershed for signs of life.

Wilbur and Loraine live a booze ridden, smoke filled life. The orbs pass by unnoticed until one day...