Logline: On a family road trip to witness a solar eclipse, a sheltered 10-year-old boy’s curated reality begins to unravel, culminating in a dangerous act of rebellion that opens his eyes to the world his parents tried to hide.

Synopsis: “Abel” is a short drama about a 10-year-old boy raised in the isolated, ideologically pure world of his ‘unschooling’ parents. On a family road trip to a solar eclipse, Abel’s first real exposure to the outside world begins to fracture the curated reality his parents have built for him, a reality symbolized by the books his mother physically redacts and rewrites. His growing curiosity culminates in a reckless act of defiance, and a final, quiet discovery that teaches him how to see the truth hidden just beneath the surface.