Summer of '42 is a 1971 American
coming-of-age comedy-drama film based on the memoirs of screenwriter
Herman Raucher. It tells the story of how Raucher, in his early teens on his 1942 summer vacation on
Nantucket Island (off the coast of Cape Cod), embarked on a one-sided romance with a young woman, Dorothy, whose husband had gone off to fight in
World War II.