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Fifteen-year-old Teddy Lupin is not thrilled about trading his upstate New York life—his band, his friends, his comfort zone—for a sleepy seaside town in North Carolina. His father, Remus Lupin, has just accepted a tenured literature professorship at a small liberal arts college, encouraged by an old university friend, Lily Evans-Potter. For Teddy, the move feels like punishment in slow motion—sweltering heat, pastel houses, and no record stores that don’t sell candles. But Remus, still recovering from a quiet breakup and years of academic burnout, sees the town as a chance to breathe again, to find joy in teaching—and maybe life—once more.
As they settle into their new home, a beautifully restored coastal bungalow near the beach, both father and son navigate their discomfort with change. From Remus’s gentle hopefulness to Teddy’s sardonic humor and blue-haired punk aesthetic, the two clash, adapt, and slowly begin to see the promise in their new life.