"...a coming-of-age saga steeped in wry nostalgia...Palladino gives a winning performance" -- Variety
On the cusp of the turbulent ‘60s, and at the doorstep of her impending womanhood, Maddy has one last summer of long, lazy days and warm, adventurous nights. Free of her abusive parents, she is comfortably at peace with her surrogate family, Lulu, Mary, and Claire at Lulu’s seaside New Jersey rooming house. But sure as autumn follows summer, change is in the wind, and soon Maddy’s world will never again be the same.