The Optimist

Drama

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Finn Taylor

Status Released

Release Date 2023-10-06

Storyline

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.