Overview
A taut, sun-soaked noir about art, obsession, and the long shadows cast by a single summer that shimmers with tension and moral unease.
Summer, 1992. Peter, a promising young artist, vanishes off the coast of Tuscany. Ten days later, his body washes ashore, unrecognisable. For one sweltering summer, his death grips the public imagination, before slipping into the haze of nineties myth.
Thirty years on, Peter’s widow, Marie, has become infamous in her own right. A cult but reclusive horror writer, her novels are celebrated for their dark brilliance – but no one knows the woman behind the pseudonym, or the memories she’s spent a lifetime suppressing.
When a retrospective of Peter’s work is announced at a prestigious London gallery, an old friend resurfaces, intent on dragging Marie back into the light and unmasking both her past and her fiction. Drawn reluctantly back to Italy, she feels the past begin to stir: the heat, the secrets, the girl she once was. What does she owe the dead – and how far will she go to protect the living?
Summer, 1992. Peter, a promising young artist, vanishes off the coast of Tuscany. Ten days later, his body washes ashore, unrecognisable. For one sweltering summer, his death grips the public imagination, before slipping into the haze of nineties myth.
Thirty years on, Peter’s widow, Marie, has become infamous in her own right. A cult but reclusive horror writer, her novels are celebrated for their dark brilliance – but no one knows the woman behind the pseudonym, or the memories she’s spent a lifetime suppressing.
When a retrospective of Peter’s work is announced at a prestigious London gallery, an old friend resurfaces, intent on dragging Marie back into the light and unmasking both her past and her fiction. Drawn reluctantly back to Italy, she feels the past begin to stir: the heat, the secrets, the girl she once was. What does she owe the dead – and how far will she go to protect the living?
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