The Summer Book

A father takes his young daughter Sophia (Emily Matthews) and elderly mother, the Grandmother (Glenn Close), to a remote Finnish island for the summer after his wife's death. Days unfold in small rituals: walks along the rocky shore, meals shared in silence, the Grandmother's stories that drift between memory and invention. What emerges across these quiet weeks is that grief does not end but becomes a weight you learn to carry without it crushing everything else.