August: We carry what we bury

Rose Carter is gone, but she hasn't left. From somewhere just beyond the world of the living, she watches over the people her death left behind: the man who loved her, and the child who will grow up in the shadow of her absence.

That man is August Harper, a once-promising basketball star who abandons everything after Rose's death and retreats to his family's farm, carrying a grief he can no longer put into words. When an infant boy named John is left on his porch, August raises him the only way he knows how, with quiet devotion and restraint.

Thousands of miles away, in Beirut, Layla, a woman shaped by war, dictatorship and displacement, has spent years building a life from the wreckage of her past. But when the 2020 Beirut port explosion tears through the city, she is forced to face the grief she has buried for so long.

Spanning continents and generations, August: We carry what we bury is a story about the weight we carry in silence, and what it takes to finally set it down.