Coronado Island

Frankie grows up on Coronado Island. She spends a lot of her time in her youth on the beach with her brother. There she lives a life of privilege. When she returns home from Vietnam, she originally comes back to the island to live in her childhood home. It is also here where she ends up in the ocean one night and almost dies while addicted to drugs.

The McGrath Estate

The McGrath Estate is Frankie’s childhood home. The estate is fenced in to try to protect from the outside world. In addition, Connor McGrath has a heroes’ wall where he keeps photographs of all the men in their family who served in the military. The women in the family have wedding photos on the wall because Connor believes women act heroically by putting up with their husbands. When Frankie returns from war, she no longer...