Marina (Demi Moore) is a romantic smalltown psychic who believes her true love will come from the sea. She believes him to be the first man that she sees ashore--butcher Leo (George Dzundza)--and sets off for New York with him. When she arrives in the city, she begins to use her psychic abilities on the neighborhood, which upsets the local psychiatrist (Jeff Daniels), whose patients begin to use Marina's services more than his. Slowy, as she gets to know her neighbors, she begins to realize that she may have been wrong about her true love.