Dr. Martin Best is a brilliant surgeon who abruptly leaves his illustrious career in Boston to become the general practitioner in a quaint East Coast fishing village where he spent summers as a child with his Aunt Sarah.

But Martin's blunt bedside manner rubs the locals the wrong way, and he quickly alienates the town. And while Martin can address any medical ailment or mystery, he's really just desperate to be left alone.

Instead, he keeps getting dragged into the middle of their personal chaos, feuds, and fantasies. What the locals don't know is that Martin's terse demeanor masks a debilitating new phobia and deep-seated psychological issues that prevent him from experiencing true intimacy with anyone. But tenacity is the creed of everyone in this small village, and the people who live there may be exactly what the doctor ordered.