From Darkness to daylight

High school senior Awsten Knight, an artist, is used to keeping secrets. Most of them are little ones, such as replacing his sisters beta fish with a new one so she wouldn't find out that it died. But he's also hiding one big personal truth: following an attempted suicide, he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Convinced that "appearances are everything," his mother insists that no one can know about Awsten's bipolar disorder, because it will tank his friendships and ruin his shot at both becoming Homecoming king and receiving scholarships to art school. But as Awsten juggles keeping his secret, a budding romance with sweet and disarming Otto, and his participation in a prestigious upcoming international art exhibition, he forgoes his medication: "I am not sick. Medications are for sick people," he asserts. As he struggles to be emotionally vulnerable-both with himself and Otto, things start to go very very wrong.