The Summer Of The Bear

Outer Hebrides – Uist, 1979. Following the the sudden, unexplained death of a diplomat, his wife and children leave their diplomatic posting in Germany and seek refuge in the Outer Hebrides. Against a backdrop of the Cold War, his wife refuses to countenance the doubts being cast about her husband and, struggling to deal with her grief slowly starts to try and make sense of events. Meanwhile her three children form their own versions of the truth. And all the while, the island is on the watch for a grizzly bear that is roaming the island that summer.