Ali Smith - Verão

February 2020: Leaning over her phone screen, 16-year-old Sacha watches—tweet by tweet, post by post—the unfolding of racial violence, the threat of a global pandemic, forest fires, radicalism, and the blatant lies of politicians.

Sacha's own family also seems on the brink of falling apart: from her brother, Robert, whose once-promising brilliance now seems dulled by a dangerous boredom, to her mother, Grace, unable to find true fulfillment in her current life, preferring instead the distant memory of her days as an actress; and next door, her father, who, under the influence of Ashley, his new wife, has become an entirely different person. Everywhere, life seems to exist in a constant state of transition—at times looping back and repeating the past in new disguises, at others suddenly ushering in the future, filled with both danger and hope. This is the final season of the Quartet. This is Verão.