Ein Haus am Meer
Thirty-year-old widow Julia decides to sell her beach house after her husband's death. In doing so, she changes the lives of all the families who have rented it for years — teenagers Chris, Maggie and Joe, and Peter.
Santa Cruz, California. A beach house has long been a haven for families who have rented it year after year. When thirty-year-old widow Julia decides to sell it, it becomes their last summer together—a summer that will confront each of them with their deepest feelings.
Chris, a teenager who came every summer with his family, experienced the bittersweet joy of first love for the first time at the beach—a feeling that will forever mark him. Maggie and Joe, married for sixty-five years, bravely face a separation that even their long-standing devotion cannot prevent: age and illness do not care about love. Peter has secretly desired a married woman for years—and now, when his desire finally seems within reach, he must decide whether to cross a line he perhaps should not cross.
Over the course of one summer, to the rhythm of the waves and the slow pace of the day, all these characters carry their wounds, hopes, and secrets to the front door of the disappearing house. And Julia, whose story quietly weaves through the lives of others, eventually finds the strength to rebuild her own life—something she once thought impossible. Bockoven selflessly measures sorrow and happiness, creating a mosaic about the beauty of life and the power of love in all its forms.
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