The Summer I Turned Pretty

Each year, Belly Conklin escapes to Cousins Beach with her family for a sun-soaked tradition at the Fisher house. The routines feel timeless, filled with bonfires, boardwalk nights, and friendships that have lasted forever. But when Belly turns sixteen, everything shifts. New attention, complicated feelings, and changing family dynamics turn a familiar summer into an emotional turning point, where growing up arrives faster than expected.

Belly Conklin has spent every summer of her life at Cousins Beach, where her mother’s closest friend hosts them at a beloved seaside house. The trip has always meant safety and tradition: lazy beach days, late-night adventures, and being around the Fisher brothers, Conrad and Jeremiah, who have felt like permanent fixtures of her world. This year, Belly arrives older and more aware of herself, and the way others look at her begins to change. As romantic sparks surface and long-held assumptions are tested, Belly is pulled between competing feelings, friendships, and expectations. Behind the sunshine, the adults are also navigating private struggles that ripple through the group and threaten the stability of their annual ritual. With first love, jealousy, and new responsibilities colliding, Belly learns that childhood summers don’t last forever, and that choosing who to trust and who to become can be as bittersweet as the season itself.