Synopsis
 Azam comes back to his village, and looks for his childhood friend Ali. Ali and his wife Minah invites Azam for fishing and a midnight picnic on a small island. Towards the end of the night, they have a game of holding breath underwater for 3 minutes, and Azam is never seen again…

Program Note
 At the village by the seashore, Azam, a singer with diminishing prospects, visits his hometown and his best friend Ali for the first time in 30 years. He goes out for an offshore fishing with Ali and his wife Minah in the middle of the night. At the break of the day, Minah jumps into the sea to prove that she can dive for three minutes. Minah floats back after three minutes and Azam, who jumped in after Minah to imitate her, never returns back to the surface.
 Year without a Summer hesitates to give a clear and logical explanation of the story,. Just like its title, the tight narrative structure is also absent from the film as well. Although a logical narrative is missing from the story, in its place, there are weltering waterlike images and a very characteristic atmosphere instead. A promising Asian women director TAN Chui Mui creates the blue ocean, traditional fairy tales, mysterious creatures and boar hunting into cinematic moments and slides the present time into past in mysterious ways of the spatiotemporal experience. In doing so, she beautifully and sympathetically expresses the existence of impossible things or life and the desire for such things with outstanding visual apparatus. (KWON Eun-sun)