Summer 1972. The Phelon family has rented a cottage at the seaside. Everyone is looking forward to a lovely holiday full of sun, swimming and fishing, and nights of good food and friends – a veritable idyll. Thirteen-year-old Janey and her younger brother Jim splash about playfully in the sea. Meanwhile, their parents, Kate and Ed, are preparing for another dinner party. All the adults will amuse themselves with dancing and drinking into the night, and then sleeping late into the morning. Janey and Jim have seen it all before but this year things will be completely different. The maturing Janey becomes increasingly aware that her parents’ marriage is in shambles. Her bored mother feels the barrenness of her life; her father watches helplessly as she flirts with other men. The main object of her lecherous interest is a photographer named Cady. But Kate isn’t the only one Cady has enchanted: the Lolita-inspired Janey watches his every move. . . . Rain uniquely captures the ephemeral nature of the moment during a summer which ends with a teenage girl’s terrible realisation that her carefree life is capable of changing irreversibly in a single instant.