Every Year After

Every Year After dropped on Prime Video on June 10, 2026, and within its first weekend became the platform's most-watched new series. Adapted from Carley Fortune's 2023 novel, the show follows Percy Fraser as she returns to the Ontario lakeside town she fled six years earlier. The reason: her childhood mentor, Sue Florek, has died. But the real weight of coming home is the person she left behind, Sam Florek, her first love.

The series jumps between two timelines. In the present, Percy reconnects with Sam, now running the local marina, and their old friends Chantal, Delilah, Charlie, and Jordie. In flashbacks, we see the six summers that shaped them, from age 14 to 19. Each episode covers one summer, building toward the catastrophe that tore the group apart. The narrative structure treats that event as a mystery, parceling out clues across the season.

Shot on location in Ontario's Muskoka region, the series uses the landscape as more than backdrop, the lake, the dock, the Florek family cottage become characters themselves. Showrunners Amy Harris and Amy Rardin, alongside Fortune herself, aimed for a tone that balances romance with real grief. The result is a show that knows exactly what it is: a lush, emotional story about whether you can go home again, and whether first love can survive the worst thing that ever happened to you.[edit]

Percy Fraser is twenty-eight, living in Toronto, working as a librarian, when she gets the call that Sue Florek has died. Sue was the mother of Sam, Percy's first love, and the woman who gave Percy a home during the summers she spent in Barry's Bay. Percy hasn't been back to that lakeside town since she left at nineteen, cutting off all contact with Sam and their tight circle of friends. Now she has to go back for the funeral.

The story unfolds across eight episodes, each one anchored to a different summer. Episode one opens in the present, with Percy driving into Barry's Bay for the first time in six years. She sees the old landmarks, the diner, the marina, the lake house, and the memories hit. Then the show cuts to 2014, the summer Percy was fourteen, when she first arrived at the Florek cottage and met Sam. He was cocky, charming, and immediately infuriating. They spent that summer swimming, arguing, and becoming inseparable.

Each subsequent episode jumps forward one year. 2015: the group expands to include Chantal, a budding artist; Delilah, who hides her family's money troubles; Charlie, the class clown; and Jordie, quiet and observant. 2016: Percy and Sam's relationship deepens, but cracks appear as college looms. 2017: a tragedy touches the town, testing the group's bond. 2018: tensions between Percy and Sam escalate as she prepares to leave for graduate school in New York. 2019: the final summer, the one that broke everything.

The present-day timeline moves in parallel. Percy reconnects with Chantal, now a successful painter in Toronto who came back for the funeral too. Delilah is married to a wealthy developer, and their reunion is awkward. Charlie works in real estate, and Jordie runs a local restaurant. Sam is cordial but guarded. He clearly still has feelings, but there's a wall between them. The series slowly reveals that something happened during their last summer together, something involving Sam's younger brother, something that left everyone carrying guilt. The season builds toward the full reveal, which comes in the finale. Along the way, Percy must decide whether she can stay in Barry's Bay, or if the past is too heavy to outrun.[edit]