Taylor Evans a successful pretty modern day woman is finding her world rapidly collapsing around her as a sudden and unexplained phobia to water grips her psyche shattering her fragile world In desperation to save herself Taylor reaches out to Dr John Cane a cast out phobia specialist and ally of the worst kind Dr Cane a notorious psychiatrist whose recent prominence and rise in the medical community is linked to a successful but controversial behavior analysis treatment hes pioneered on a desolate island Reluctantly Dr Cane agrees to treat Taylors irrational fear of water but on the sole condition the treatment take place on the remote island for her safety and wellbeing On the island nothing is ever what it seems