Frankenstein meets Stand By Me. GROWING PAINS is a queer coming of age tale that follows two teenage boys as they struggle with their identities as a mad scientist’s son and the boy that she reincarnated from the dead. August has recently died, but thanks to a strain of super regenerative algae being implanted into his body, he is reanimated and brought back to life. As a living corpse, August struggles with this new identity as his body begins to betray him. Theo is the son of the lead scientist, Lyra, who revived August. After a horrible accident befell his older brother, he’s lived a sheltered existence constantly under the watchful eye of his mother. But Lyra is keeping secrets from the both of them, secrets that threaten the already fragile peace they’ve tried so desperately to create together. Can anyone be trusted? What’s it like to live in a body that doesn’t fit? And what’s that noise coming from the attic?