Tessa Gray's life changes forever when she loses her four year old daughter, Abby, in a hit and run accident outside her preschool. As Tessa grapples with a terrible grief -made worse by the police's insistence that the case is unsolvable - she finds her only solace in Celia Reed, the therapist her husband has pushed her to see. Tessa becomes consumed with the hunt for her daughter's killer, and Celia warns Tessa that a crusade fro answers won't stop her pain, and as she counsels, she finds that their emotional sessions open the door to problems she's spent years ignoring. 'Life Without Summer' is a haunting portrait of two women whose lives converges unexpectedly when the answers one needs turn out to be the other's only chance for peace.