L ’estiu que comença covers the fifty years that Júlia Reig and Andreu Balart have been alive. Yet their ties go back even further, to before they were born, because of the friendship between their mothers, who hopefully imagined the possibility that they might inherit this bond or even fall in love with each other. But Júlia and Andreu want to feel free from a destiny determined to bring them together.
“That toast that Júlia had just made was the ‘traditional toast for Midsummer’s Eve’ and Júlia gets a silly thrill at seeing how habits become traditions and are inherited just like books and houses”.