On The Way Down

Years after a single summer changed the course of his life, Wes is still living in the aftermath of it.

Wes was a typical adolescent in the early 2000's. He had a blended family, a skateboard, and a book of burned CDs. But beneath the surface of his relationship with his stepsister, Violet, existed something far more complicated.

When Violet and Wes set out on a road trip from Ohio to Florida during the last summer before adulthood, the truth that Wes has spent his life carefully concealing must be exposed. What begins as a story about loving someone you can't have turns into something far messier: a story of grief inherited too young and boundaries blurred beyond recognition.

Told through the reflective lens of adulthood, On The Way Down is a tribute to the millennial experience. Complete with a "tracklist" of early 2000's pop-punk ballads, self-depreciating humor, family dysfunction, and the unbearable vulnerability of being young.

Lyrical and haunting, On The Way Down is a coming-of-age story about memory, guilt, family, and the enduring shape of love, even when it doesn't meet our expectations.