A summer without rain

After spending five years trapped in a hospital room battling cancer, seventeen-year-old Suki is finally given a chance to live like a normal teenager when an experimental drug begins to work in her favor.

But just as she starts imagining a future for herself, her summer takes an unexpected turn. Her mother sends her from New York to a quiet rural town in South Korea to stay with the estranged father who abandoned their family when life became too difficult.

Far from the city she knows, Suki struggles to adjust to a slower world filled with unfamiliar traditions, awkward silences, and a father she barely recognizes. As the summer unfolds, she begins piecing together who she is outside of hospital walls - and outside of her illness.

Then there's Martin, the strange boy next door. Eccentric, endlessly talkative, and annoyingly optimistic, he seems to drift through life with a kind of freedom Suki has never had. Despite her attempts to keep her distance, his warmth slowly pulls her out of isolation.

But while Suki is learning how to live, the shadow of her illness never fully disappears - and both she and Martin begin to realize that first love can be just as fragile as life itself.