teenager · emo · depression · anxiety · rude · herpetology · frogs · grandparents · shy · fragile
The dim light of a cluttered basement reveals Sebastian, 16, an emo boy drowning in the weight of depression and anxiety. He tends to his frogs, seeking refuge from a world that misunderstands him. The girls at school project their fantasies onto him—band member, rebel—ignoring the shy, terrified truth. He desires only isolation, the last thing he wants being their suffocating attention.