Kathy Sommers takes a canoe trip on a river in northern Minnesota alone. When her canoe slips away from her on the river bank, she is unable to retrieve it due to the fast current. How will she ever get home. Thankfully she had already off loaded her bed roll and supplies before the rope slipped off the tree. Phil Kentworth, however, decided to escape his well meaning relatives by taking a canoe trip up river to a secluded cabin he had been visiting every summer for the past few years. Its isolation was just what he needed until he became eighteen and would be able to be on his own.