A story about friendship and guilt on the border between Mexico and the United States.

In a neighborhood of Mexicali, one of the last cities in Mexico before crossing into the United States, two inseparable girls, Elisa and Aimé, live through a summer that will mark them forever. The night before Elisa leaves the city to study abroad thanks to an athletics scholarship, their shared responsibility in a tragic event fractures not only their friendship but the entire neighborhood, a community where violence mixes with superstition and fear.

Two decades later, the two friends reunite as very different people from the girls they once were. Elisa, a former athletics hopeful, returns to her hometown alone and ashamed of expectations she has failed to meet. Aimé, once shy and in her friend’s shadow, has become an influential woman who has managed to steer her destiny with a firm hand. Between them opens a rift marked by guilt and the different ways they face the secret they share.

Donde termina el verano addresses the end of innocence and the structural violence that permeates the lives of children and women in a transient place marked by extreme poverty. With hypnotic and precise prose, Elma Correa composes a border elegy in which femicides, stolen children, and silent mothers are part of a story shaped by the honesty and loyalty of a community living on the margins of the law.