Going to Weather is a nautical ghost story set on a New England whaleship in the 1840s. A cobbled-together crew boards the ship Valor, bound for the Pacific. Among them is a landsman hoping to leave his shore life behind, and a second mate striving for a captaincy in a nation that has few other options for him. The ship’s master has built a reputation of great success, but his lucky image is dogged by a tale that years ago he was the sole survivor of a wreck at sea. And as the voyage draws on in the ocean's isolation, an unwelcome passenger makes itself felt.