A young white man who identifies with black culture more than his own has his life turned around when a black convict tries to rob the diner where he works. He hides the black man in the family cabin and while nursing him back to health, falls in love with him. Events overtake him when he tries to get him over the border and into freedom.

Seth (Gabriel Mann) lives a dull-as-dishwater life in a small community in upstate New York. He hates his job in the local diner and dreams of a cosmopolitan life studying in an Art college in Manhattan. Highly creative and with a vivid imagination, he is obsessed with Afro-American culture, despite never having met anybody who is black.

One day his life is turned around when a black escaped convict called Knowledge Johnson (Laurence Mason) tries to rob the diner. Knowledge who was wounded during his escape, passes out during the attempted robbery and Seth hides him in the family log cabin so he can nurse him back to health. Seth's initial wariness but obvious fascination with
Knowledge slowly turns into a friendship that is bound by mutual attraction. However when the local sheriff discovers Knowledge's whereabouts events overtake them as Seth attempts to get Knowledge across the border to Canada and freedom.

Parallel Sons became an instant cult classic when it originally hit the international film festival circuit picking up numerous awards around the globe. With an outcome that is positively Shakespearean, John G. Young has created the unlikeliest of love stories, a fascinating and sensitive exploration into the world of obsession, racial tension, sexuality and human frailty.