Harry Lund is a nineteen-year-old man who meets Monika, a romantic, reckless and rebellious seventeen-year-old, and they fall in love. They leave their families and jobs in their small town, Harry gets his father’s boat and they spend the summer together in an isolated island.

A sensual tale of rebellious love that presents its central female character with richness and depth, Summer with Monika is the breakout film from the endlessly influential auteur who would go on to embody European modernist cinema and regularly collaborate with the film’s star, Harriet Andersson.