Nine-year-old Dana Foster joins her older brother Luke on forbidden adventures from balancing on a dizzying ledge to losing a prized blue sailboat down a storm drain.
Her world shatters when an accident takes his life.
Blame and regret tear the family apart. Her father turns away from God and moves to another state leaving Dana and her mother to manage alone.
Still grieving and angry with her father three years later, Dana visits him, her new stepmother and their baby, and disappears from their wooded yard without a trace.
Search teams comb nearby mountains, unaware Dana is struggling on a life-threatening journey.
Chasing the Blue Boat follows a family in the early 1970s from New York to Western North Carolina as they learn how to heal and ultimately forgive.