As an eight year-old boy, Allen Bauer (Tom Hanks) is vacationing with his family near Cape Cod. While taking a sight-seeing tour on a ferry, he gazes into the ocean and sees something below the surface that fascinates him. Allen jumps into the water, even though he cannot swim. He grasps the hands of a girl who is inexplicably under the water with him and an instant connection forms between the two. Allen is quickly pulled to the surface sa pamamagitan ng the deck hands and the two are separated, though no one else apparently sees the girl. After the ferry moves off, Alan continues to look back at the girl...