Male, 18. Gus is smart, talented, artistic, introverted, and secretly queer. Gus is new in town from Minnesota. His beloved mother’s recent death forces him to spend his last summer before college living with his distant but kind father, Dan Shepard, in the small town of Livingston, Montana. Gus is used to imagining his life through his sketchbook and struggles to fit into the world around him. However, his artistic talents soon prove valuable when he uses his father’s woodshop to construct his own homemade skateboard. This impressive, colorful board intrigues the local riders and attracts a new bond with the winsomely charming skater boy, Bridger Owens. Gus and Bridger's unlikely new friendship sparks nervous revelations in Gus about his own sexuality and the boys' deepening romantic connection soon forces both Gus and Bridger to come to grips with who they are, what they want, and what it means to grow up...OPEN ETHNICITY, LEAD

Male, 18. Bridger is handsome, charming, easygoing, and a rebellious free spirit. He is one of the local skatepark kids of Livingston, Montana. A talented skater with a slight edge, Bridger has long been best friends with his skate group's gruff, de facto leader, Max Stevens. Bridger takes life as it comes, doesn't care about school, and just wants to make the most of his thrilling summer. He’s caught off-guard when meeting the new kid, Gus, and their connection starts to bring up emotions inside Bridger that he would rather not deal with. The complexities of his sexuality - and the fears of revealing anything to his crew - are more than Bridger can handle. He’s torn between his years-long friendship with the possessive Max and the budding feelings he's growing for Gus. However, Gus is just stopping through town. Bridger feels stuck in Livingston for the rest of his life. Is it worth blowing everything he knows up for someone who will eventually leave?...OPEN ETHNICITY, LEAD

Female, 22, BIPOC. Tara is smart, confident, observant, insightful, queer, and comfortable in her own skin. Tara is a local skater girl in Livingston, Montana who has just finished college and now aims to earn her dream job in a bigger city coding computers as a Software Developer. Tara notices Gus, the newcomer, right away because of his detailed drawings and his rare kindness. Tara, being queer herself, watches Gus and his burgeoning friendship with Bridgerand can decipher what's happening long before either boys are ready to admit it. Tara used to date the resident meathead Max when they were young, but has distanced herself from the rageful person he has become. Confident as she may be, Tara is still not ready to reveal her full truth to Max and settles for trying her best to steer him down a better path...LEAD

Male, 23. Max is gruff, aggressive, and struggling with a deep wellspring of unresolved grief that comes out as cruelty. He is an extremely skilled skater who leads a local skate group in Livingston, Montana. Crushed by the death of his skate shop-owning father, Max is desperate to become a pro-boarder to break free of his small hometown. However, Max is trapped in a dysfunctional household with his harried mother and her abusive new boyfriend. Struggling to hold on to a fading past when things were good—his dad was alive, his girlfriend Tara loved him, and his family's skateboard shop was booming—Max is unable to move past his pain and fear of change. He has become a rageful bully to protect himself. When his longtime best friend Bridger Owens starts hanging out with a new kid, Gus Shepard, Max’s longtime possessive relationship with Bridger exacerbates his desire to push away and torment Gus to keep Bridger all to himself. Ultimately, Max must confront internal questions about his own sexuality to move through his pain onto a path of personal growth...OPEN ETHNICITY, LEAD

Male, 50's - early 60’s. Dan is a stoic lumberjack and a hardworking carpenter who owns his own woodworking shop in small town Livingston, Montana.  He is a lonely man with kind eyes who lives by himself since his wife divorced him years ago and left with their only son, Gus, to live in Minnesota. Uncomfortable expressing his emotions, Dan has pushed down his feelings of pain at the abandonment of his wife and her recent death, but he's glad, even if he may not show it, that Gus has come to spend his last summer before art college with him. Dan is a workaholic who expects hard work from his son, but Dan is pleased that Gus takes to the woodworking shop, and he's surprised to find that Gus has even secretly made his own skateboard. Though Dan finds it difficult to connect emotionally with Gus at first, he loves and accepts his son as he is, and as the summer wears on, he finds he can speak more easily about the value of love and the necessity for resilience in the face of its loss…OPEN ETHNICITY, LEAD

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