A lakeside summer starts to feel like borrowed time in this quiet American romance about a couple learning to notice an ending before it arrives.
What is An Autumn Summer about?
Two months into a family holiday at a house in northern Michigan, Kevin and his girlfriend Cody have settled into an easy, repeatable rhythm: slow mornings, familiar routines, small jokes that only make sense to the two of them. As the season stretches on, the nights start pulling them toward riskier, more spontaneous choices, the kind neither would make back home. Underneath the comfort sits a fact they keep circling without saying out loud: the visit has a closing date, and every ordinary afternoon together is quietly becoming a memory in progress. The film follows that shift in attention rather than a string of dramatic events, watching two people try to hold onto something they already know is ending.
About the cast
Lukita Maxwell and Mark McKenna anchor the film as the central couple, with Louise Barnes, Katie Baker, Tony Horton, Jun Yu, Joette Waters and Josh Rogers rounding out the family circle around them. The ensemble leans into an unhurried, naturalistic register that suits a story built from small domestic beats rather than big turns.
Context & significance
Directed by Jared Isaac, the film sits comfortably inside the low-key, character-driven strain of American romance that trades plot mechanics for atmosphere and interior feeling. Its Northern Michigan setting, all lake light and family houses, does a lot of the emotional work, giving the couple's story a specific, lived-in backdrop rather than a generic one. Released in 2026, it's a compact ninety-eight-minute watch built for a single unhurried sitting, closer in temperament to a long, wistful conversation than to a plot-driven feature, and it leans on ensemble family scenes as much as on the central couple to build out its sense of a shared, finite summer.
Watching An Autumn Summer on Ktime
An Autumn Summer streams on K-Time with a Farsi dub and Persian subtitles both available, so viewers can choose whichever fits their evening. As with everything on the platform, watching it requires only a free K-Time account login, no purchase involved, and the interface itself is built around a Farsi-first experience for the Iranian diaspora audience.