Charlotte's Story, a genuine Keys classic, is a spell-binding true account of how a young couple manage to carve out a life for themselves on an isolated Florida Keys in the mid-1930s. In order to surive without electricity, running water, or any other modern conveniences, Charlotte and Russ fall back on the ways of the pioneer Conch settlers. Peopled with rum runners, drug smugglers, "borrowers", border patrolmen and conch spongers, Charlottes's Story follows Charlotte and Russ through one hair-raising adventure after another, culminating with their struggles to survive the terrible Labor Day jurricane of 1935.