Right to left:Liz and Eva
In Venezuela, Eva is on a trip when her car has a breakdown right by a small town. While getting it fixed there, she's directed for a seaside hotel. The owner, Margot, allows her to stay in sympathy after saying it's booked up initially. It turns out she's hosting friends who all meet every year to celebrate Liz's birthday.Eva is soon invited to dinner with them. She learns before long too that all of them are lesbians. Further, many are or have been in relationships together. When she runs into Liz, Eva charms her and soon they grow close. It transpires they are both also dealing with some very difficult issues neither knows of at first.
Tropes:
- Auto Erotica: Eva and her husband have sex in the front seat of his car before she leaves him.
- Bathtub Scene: Liz is shown submerging herself underwater in the bath and counting how long she can hold her breath.
- Bittersweet Ending: Liz dies of her cancer, but her friends and lover Eva remember her with love. Eva even named her daughter after Liz, with two of Liz's other friends also raising kids.
- Cast Full of Gay: All of the main characters in the film are lesbians (or in Eva's case, bisexual), with these also being the majority overall.
- Cessation of Existence: Liz, while contemplating the idea of death, muses that she believes this happens when you die, saying there will be nothing left from her after.
- Closet Gay: Dolores is still closeted when the story starts, afraid being known as a lesbian will hurt her career as a doctor.
- Contrived Coincidence: Eva's son Tommy died of cancer, and it turns out that Liz, her newfound lover, also has it, from which she's dying.
- Dead Guy Junior: Eva tells Liz she'll name her baby after her if it's a girl. Liz says not to burden the child with her name. Eva does anyway though after Liz dies, as a tribute to her.
- The Film of the Book: It's based on the play Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, although not strictly.
- Forced Out of the Closet: Dolores is still closeted. One of her other friends tells Eva quite soon after they meet her though, to Dolores' annoyance.
- Foreshadowing: Liz counts down as she submerges herself while swimming and then bathing. At the end, as she's being euthanized, she dies the same way.
- Friend to All Living Things: Implied by Eva, as her immediate reaction after seeing the fish Liz caught flopping in a bucket is throwing it back in. Liz is annoyed then charmed by her doing this.
- Heteronormative Crusader: The lesbians who meet by the seashore meet privately to avoid homophobia from others. Dolores is also still closeted due to fearing others' reactions and it harming her career as a doctor. Liz later tells Eva that she was kicked out of home at age 16 over her sexuality as well.
- Lipstick Lesbian: Most of the lesbian friends are conventionally feminine, though Liz is a bit more chapstick, with long hair (except in Coqui's case, though she's girly overall). Eva's apparently bisexual, though with the same feminine style.
- Mercy Kill: Liz asks Dolores to euthanize her before the pain of her cancer is too bad, making her promise. Dolores however can't go through with it, so Eva does instead.
- Ms. Fanservice: Liz and Eva are both good-looking women, seen more than once wearing bikinis along with topless when they have sex.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Eva lost her son Tommy while he was pretty young to cancer.
- Secretly Dying: Liz it turns out contracted cancer again, after having beat it once before. At first only Dolores knows, with the others only learning it much later. Although she's given treatment options, Liz doesn't want to endure them, with little chance anyway.
- Someone to Remember Him By: Eva is seen in the end with a daughter, after having previously told Liz that it's both their child. She names her after Liz too.
- The Tease: Coqui openly flirts with Liz early on, and tries to seduce her although she's got a girlfriend. Liz nearly gives in, but a call stops them.
