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Abandonment marks Kya’s life. Anyone she’s ever loved leaves her, even Tate when he goes away to college and doesn’t return on the 4th of July as he promised, and neglects to send a letter explaining why. Kya’s mother (Ahna O’Reilly), sisters, older brother, and father all walked away from the family cottage in the marsh without saying goodbye to Kya as she watched them walk out of her life.
Her brother Jodie (played by Will Bundon as a child), is the only person to take the time to tell her he was leaving. That he cared enough to say goodbye, and later to come back looking for her when they are grown, is why Kya is willing to forget the hurt of the past and welcome Jodie (Logan Macrae) and his family into her life after years of separation.
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As Aslıhan Alp of The Stanford Daily pointed out: “Their reunion gets lost between the trial and flashbacks, and at the movie’s conclusion, it’s unclear how the siblings got so close with only one meeting.” Because the filmmakers streamlined a 368-page book into a two-hour and five-minute film, some areas suffered, including Kya’s special bond with her brother which was explored more fully in the novel. Although some details were lost in translation, the spirit of the novel remained true.
