Holiday Country

Every summer, Ada returns to her family’s villa on the Turkish coast, where the days unfold in sunlit ease—boat rides, beach games, long swims with friends. It’s a life far from California, one that feels like home even as it slips through her fingers. No matter how deeply Ada wants to belong to the place her mother once called hers, the connection feels fragile—especially as her mother drifts through the summer, unmoored after years abroad.

When an old family friend arrives unexpectedly, Ada begins to imagine a different future for them both: a rekindled love for her mother, a return to roots, a chance to feel whole again. But as she plays matchmaker, Ada is drawn into her own web of desire, forced to question whose future she’s really chasing—her mother’s, or her own.

Lush and evocative, Holiday Country is a meditation on identity, inheritance, and the pull of love in a life lived between worlds—a story of what it means to belong, and what it costs to keep believing you can.