Still Waters, Hidden Secrets

Nolan Hayes runs an aquarium shop and is raising a child on his own, which is enough for most people to file him under trouble. Zorii Lars, an elementary school teacher who does everything the way it is supposed to be done, arrives at his place for a home visit and files him there too. What Nolan sees in her is the stubbornness and loneliness he recognizes from himself, sitting under the well-behaved surface. The prejudice wears off and they get closer in the quiet of the shop. Then Zorii learns that this mild man has a past he has not talked about. Their families are far apart in circumstance, and the buried secret sits between them.