It is the summer after high school graduation. Four seniors - Tom, Monty, Monty's girlfriend Jerri, and red-haired Sarah Gibbons - are sorting out their futures. Will their future be in the small Cape Cod town where they grew up? The one that empties out in September when all the summer people go home? Or will it be "off Cape" and into the big time? One of them has an all expenses paid scholarship to the West Coast college that is a ticket out of town. Small time. Big time. What will it be? Set against the backdrop and beauty of Cape Cod, Meet Me in the Bottom is a story of friendship, beaches, boats, loyalty, the ocean, drive in movies, jalopies, love on blankets in the dunes, ice cream shops, and young people finding their futures. Death enters, too. The stakes are high for these four.