Ashley Judd plays Ruby Gissling our protagonist and heroine; she is our Catherine Morland character. As the film begins, Ruby is leaving a young man in Tennessee, and driving herself to Florida where she lands in Panama City, Florida, a summer resort town she visited as a child and has several good memories of time with her family there. She arrives in Panama City during the autumn months, which is at the beginning of the off-season for a beach town. Luckily, she gets a job at Chambers Beach Emporium, a souvenir store run by Mrs. Mildred Chambers, who hires her, and integrates herself into the community. The only reason Mrs. Chamber’s hires her is because she sees a younger version of herself in Ruby. At the store she befriends a co-worker named Rochelle. Rochelle’s character is similar to