Storyline

Alice is a reclusive writer, resigned to a solitary life on the seaside cliffs of Southern England while World War II rages across the channel. When she opens her front door one day to find she's to adopt a young London evacuee named Frank, she's resistant. It's not long, however, before the two realize they have more in common in their pasts than Alice had assumed. Gemma Arterton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Tom Courtenay star in this intensely emotional story of love's endurance in trying times.—IFC Films

Plot Keywords

love, lesbian romance, lesbian love, lesbianism, world war two, lesbian, lesbian couple, lesbian interest, writer, flashback, 1940s, lgbtq, rural setting, london england, running away, lesbian kiss, 1920s, racism, homophobia, title spoken by character

Short Review

Made with great panache, this is a real gem of understated poignancy; about summers as lovely as they are fraught.

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