Young Hearts

Synopsis

As his father climbs the charts with a song about first love, 14-year-old country boy Elias is experiencing its dizzying heights with his new neighbour from Brussels. From passing shy smiles back and forth, they enter into a furtive, fervent courtship that explodes Elias’ idea of what love has to offer. Elias (Lou Goossens) may not have experienced love quite yet, despite being in a relationship with a girl from his class, but Alexander (Marius De Saeger) has, breezily revealing it was with a boy. This revelation sends Elias into a crisis for which he does not feel equipped—on the one hand, he experiences bliss going on pulse-pounding adventures and stealing kisses with Alexander; on the other, he instinctively avoids Alexander’s affections in front of his classmates and shuns his family’s kind entreaties to open up. To keep the boy of his dreams, can Elias embrace risk and let his feelings run free? Though age-appropriately chaste (the boys literally roll in the hay), Young Hearts has all the irresistible romantic fizz of Heartstopper and the type of genuine cross-generational connection that tugs at both your heartstrings and your tear ducts.

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