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In Parallel Sons, Seth (Gabriel Mann) is a young man in a small mountain town in the northeast. He’s fascinated by Black pop culture but has never seen a Black man before (although his walls are covered with pictures of shirtless black males). One night when closing the diner where he works, Knowledge (Laurence Mason), a young Black man and escaped convict holds him up and then faints. Instead of calling the local sheriff, Seth carries Knowledge off to nurse him back to health. Eventually the two develop a relationship, but by then the sheriff figures out that Seth is protecting the fugitive. You kind of have to set aside the coincidence that the only Black man ever to come to town also happens to be gay.