School teacher Julie Barlow and her two best friends Beth and Aggie are looking forward to an adults only beach vacation Julie also plans to use the time to figure out why her perfectly planned life has gone terribly amiss They’ve barely hit the road when a frantic call from Julie’s mother hijacks their best laid plans Uncle Tony Lucky Costa is missing Always entertaining often irresponsible never reliable Uncle Lucky was a favorite with her friends For Julie for whom he’d been a sometimes surrogate father not so much Her mother wants them to take a teeny detour to look for the irascible retired surfer Julie makes excuses After all she was the one who decided she never wanted to see Lucky again Overruled in this as she is in much of her life Julie and her friends detour to Lucky’s latest scheme Lucky’s Beach Bar and Grill They find it tucked away in a quaint coastal town on the Delaware coast With a crescent beach of white sand large waves plenty of tanned young men a lively night life