Open at Rock Bottom

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Outrage surges through the community when EJ White sixteen-year-old son of the wealthy and powerful District Attorney is accused of raping his childhood friend Kendra Daniels. When new evidence surfaces that appears to contradict Kendra's testimony EJ takes the chance to get his conviction overturned. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Sent to live with his aunt until the public controversy dies down EJ recreates himself as Eric Madison planning to keep his head down and just get through his senior year without discovery. Soon enough though surprising friendships and even a budding romance draw him deeper into the persona. He discovers that being Eric allows him to play out a better version of himself one without a guilty past to haunt him. But when news about Kendra forces him back into reality will EJ choose to finally take responsibility for the damage he's done even if it means sacrificing the happiness he's found as Eric?</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When so many perpetrators of sexual violence have been allowed to deny their actions deflect blame and avoid the consequences what does it look like to do the right thing? Is atonement or redemption even possible? If so what might it require? Alternating between EJ's past and Eric's present </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Open at Rock Bottom </em>delves into the mind of a post-#MeToo teen perpetrator to<span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> explore how one young man navigates these largely uncharted waters.</span></p>