Summer of Mesa is a 2020 coming-of-age romantic drama film written and directed by Josh Cox who was 20 years old during the shoot.

[2] Lily Peony is a precocious sixteen year old girl who spends her summers on Cape Cod with her grandmother Anna.

Throughout the previous years vacationing, the Peonys grew close with a Cape-native family: single-mother Velma and her teenage son John.

During the summer of 1985, after being away from the peninsula for some time, Lily and John find themselves pursuing a mature and unexpected romance which has them both falling quickly for each other.

[10] In an interview with lesbian media company Lesflicks, filmmaker Josh Cox described the sequel as being unlike cliché romance films "where we’re trying to get two characters to get together," and rather a story about "[a] queer person just going through complex emotions and feelings and trying to move past them.