Little League teammates Neil McCormick (Chase Ellison) and Brian Lackey (George Webster) experience life-altering events in the small town of Hutchinson, Kansas, during the summer of 1981. These experiences manifest themselves in different ways as Neil and Brian grow into their teens — Neil (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) turns tricks with older men in a quest for familiarity and closeness while Brian (Brady Corbet) experiences recurring nightmares of his alien abduction, leading him to seek out Neil, the other boy he remembers was abducted that fateful summer.

Based on the acclaimed novel by Scott Heim, Gregg Araki’s haunting adaptation of Mysterious Skin is a complex yet sensitive and deeply moving exploration of childhood trauma, repressed memories, and sexual abuse, and their lasting psychological effects.

Mysterious Skin displays Araki’s notable touches of vivid, surreal visuals with a carefully chosen soundtrack, featuring an ethereal, haunting score by Harold Budd and Cocteau Twins’s Robin Guthrie.