Chosen

Joss Wayar is the university's golden boy. Basketball captain. Top student. The man everyone admires and no one questions. With a picture perfect relationship and a future carefully planned by his family, participating in a national documentary about adoption is simply another opportunity to prove he's exactly who the world expects him to be.

Gawin Caskey has spent four years blending into the background. While everyone knows Joss's name, few even know his. He prefers quiet afternoons with a guitar, books and songs he'll never let anyone read. Becoming part of a documentary about parenthood was never on his list of ambitions, until his best friend signs him up without permission.

When the university announces that participants will be paired by compatibility rather than choice, neither of them expects to hear their names called together.

They've shared every lecture for years.

Yet they've never truly seen each other.

Entrusted with caring for a little boy abandoned before he was old enough to understand the meaning of home, Joss and Gawin quickly discover that raising a child isn't measured by sleepless nights or dirty diapers.

It's measured by the quiet promise to stay.

As the cameras capture every triumph and every mistake, two strangers begin questioning everything they thought they knew about family, love, and the people society leaves behind.

Because blood doesn't make someone a parent.

And sometimes...

The family you were asked to pretend to be becomes the one you never knew you needed.