100-Year-Old Teenager

A shrill alarm clock tears you from a deep, black nothingness. Your heart races, your chest still aches from the cramp that ripped you from this world seconds ago – or was it a whole lifetime? You want to scream, but your voice sounds high-pitched and unfamiliar. You throw off the blanket, stumble out of bed, and your legs – your YOUNG, strong legs – carry you as if by themselves. You stop in front of the bathroom mirror. A strange, youthful face stares back at you: smooth skin, short black hair, brown eyes wide with terror. A piercing scream escapes you – the scream of a 100-year-old man trapped in the body of a 16-year-old boy.

Drake must come to terms with his family (father, mother, brother, sister), who naturally think he is their son and brother. The relationship is initially marked by misunderstandings and generation gaps. He gets to know all the different groups that exist in 2026 at high school.

Chicago, a quiet upper-middle-class suburb. Here, neat single-family homes line manicured front yards. The high school is a modern building with flat-screen TVs in the hallways and students constantly staring at their smartphones. It is a world of Snapchat, TikTok, and 'OK Boomer' – a world as alien to Drake as a foreign planet. The contrast between his memory of an analog, slower time and this hyper-connected, fast-paced reality is the source of all comedy and conflict. He must attend high school again, then college after graduating high school. He had to suppress his homosexuality in his previous life; will he live out his sexuality in his new life?

Drake must find a way to navigate today's teenage world, overcome his deep-seated prejudices against youth, and perhaps even find a place in this new, old family.