Synopsis: A Summer in Time

In the middle of the 1970s, a young man leaves his home in the United States and travels to Europe for the first time. His mission: to reconnect with a young woman he met the summer before in America.

Each returned to their respective homes in order to finish schooling: he graduated from a small college in America while she completed her first year at a university in Paris.

After spending a month in Paris where he stayed at an apartment on the Left Bank owned by a cousin of his friend, and she tried to tie up loose ends with family and friends, they agree to travel to the South of France to visit her mother and father who live there separately after divorcing.

Their driver and guide for the trip is an ex-pat Dutch woman who recently received a generous pension from the French government for her work during the Resistance in World War II. She plans to spend the money on a new home located somewhere between Paris and Marseille, their final destination.

Along the way, the Dutchwoman introduces them to a sorority of wizened ageing former Resistance fighters, as well as an exotic assortment of young hopeful post-war refugees from Vietnam and elsewhere.

While he tries to finish expanding on a short story he wrote that he feels could become his first novel, and she maneuvers through the mine-fields of family life, they reunite as friends and lovers.

More than just a realistic love story (as if that weren't enough) A Summer In Time also takes us back to a period of time, and not that long ago, when relations between nations and peoples were characterized more by curiosity than competition, wonder rather than judgment.

If there's a message at all in this simple story, it's that as long as people can continue to move about and unexpectedly fall in love, there's hope for international relations.

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