Landscapes in August

Recovering from a bad divorce, artist Susan Miner, has retreated to a cottage by the beach to work and heal, but when she finds a young man asleep on the rocks near her home, she begins to realize that there is more to life than the beautiful view outside her window.

The disappearance of this mysterious young man who has unsettled her life, leads Susan on a journey along which she encounters her past in the form of her ex-husband and an impossible future in the person of Peter Ashby, the father of the boy who had brought her back to life. Their lives continue to intersect across the globe as they each try to find a way to cope with loss and love.
When her young companion disappears, she tries to escape her loneliness by travelling through Europe and Manhattan. But she keeps runing into her past--in the form of her ex-husband, even as she tries to run away from her future--in the form of her young friend's well-known father, until she is forced to stop and consider what she really wants in her life.