The Optimist

Movie · 1h 42m

Starring Stephen Lang, Elsie Fisher, Robin Weigert, Luke David Blumm

Herbert Heller keeps his experience as a teenage boy surviving in Auschwitz hidden from his family. Until he meets Abby, a young teenager whose own brush with pain and death inspires him to open up as well, leading the two of them to exchange their stories as a meaningful and healing friendship is born.