![]() Seth’s imagination begins to run wild, cycling through the possibilities made tangible by a secret space of their own, beyond the province of adult eyes. When the porn store shuts down, Derrick invites Seth to check out the abandoned storefront. Derrick is applying to colleges - his mother keeps leaving brochures out on the kitchen table, carefully arranging them to look casually placed - but his childhood buddy Seth is facing a less certain future: he’s a good kid, bright and creative, but has never been able to apply himself in school. It’s 1986 in Milpitas, California, and Derrick’s interactions with his friends and classmates seem to crackle with the weight of a new disequilibrium - adulthood, or something close to it, lingers on the horizon, rendering every bike ride home along the scenic route or whispered conversation in the back of Spanish class oddly bittersweet. ![]() ![]() ![]() He even has a part-time job (albeit a secret one working the cash register at the local porn store). Derrick Hall is about as well-adjusted as a teenager can be: affable, responsible, even willing to indulge his parents’ sentimentality as the fall of his senior year flashes by. ![]()
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