Summer of Truth

After his father was killed by terrorists at the finish line of the Boston Marathon and his mother killed by a mugger a year before Brendan is determined to make sense of the world to see if life has any real meaning. He shuns a carpentry career and embarks upon the study of philosophy to seek truth in everyday existence. He lives in a rustic cabin with no electricity on a lake in Maine but becomes intrigued by a waitress named Cosette and together they tour Canada having no idea who will be waiting for them after they get back-Brendan's wife. She attacks Cosette in a bloody catfight which lands Cosette in the hospital. As a result of the many twists and turns of that summer Brendan-through Cosette-discovers the truth he'd been searching for a truth embodied in the acceptance that everything has a price to pay including happiness itself.