A troubled boy, on the run from the law and terribly injured, will be saved after he receives a transplant of the world’s most special heart. But his destiny and all that comes with it will be hard earned as he fights his incredible transformation in every way he can. THE PASSERBY is both a deeply spiritual coming of age type script, along with a roadshow, all jettisoned by an amazing moment of magic.

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SYNOPSIS:

Abbud is a teenager who resides in Los Angeles. He lives a troubled life as he has been farmed out to a cranky aunt since his father tragically died, and his mother, due to issues with severe addiction, is on the losing side of getting her life together. It’s not long before he begins to run into issues with the law, and other authority-type figures. Eventually he is sent to a center for young offenders, and although he makes his first best friend there, a sixteen year old called Louis, and he is treated well by a kind nun, Lucia, things continue to be very difficult for him. Because of problems within this institution due to its over-population, it is decided that he and Louis will be sent to their ‘sister center’ in Jerusalem. The center’s board feel that both boys could learn valuable things in this new environment. They also think that the new location could be a really good fit for Abbud, since his family is of Middle-Eastern, Christian descent. This ‘geographic cure’ for young Abbud doesn’t work. Abbud and Louis find a myriad of ways to escape the strict autocracy and monotony of the new establishment, and they eventually become mischievous street kids. One day, after a series of petty thefts, they escape from the law by concealing themselves in the covered storage area of a truck, which is driven into the countryside by a thirty-something couple, Peter and Jennifer, who are totally unaware of their most unusual cargo. By the time they are discovered, the four are deep in a forest, in a specific area of interest to the young couple, one that has a magnificent waterfall formed by the eruption of artesian waters via the convergence of many artesian channels. Adjacent to all this is a mysterious cave. It’s apparent that this is a very special place. After some rich exploration while they are in the cave behind the waterfall an anomaly occurs in the form of a mild earthquake, and they all fall into a fantastical-type location featuring many virtual images of key moments in the life of Jesus. They end up landing in a community of hobbit-type creatures who are unbeknownst to anyone living in the world above them. They soon learn that this place had been formed when Jesus passed away and that his still-beating heart is housed in a coveted spot nearby. No one believes a word of it until they are taken to this location. Abbud and Louis are totally fascinated, and while breathlessly observing this beating heart, Abbud has an impulse to hold it, which is something that no one else has ever been able to do before. Those who have tried have been deterred by a strong electric current. But not so with Abbud. Concurrent with this event the earth shifts again, things get out of control very quickly and Louis is killed trying to save Abbud. Abbud has also been seriously injured, including suffering a lethal chest wound that has pierced his chest and his heart. The young boy soon finds himself in hospital, and via miraculous circumstances the Christ heart (the doctors have no idea about the history of the organ) fits him perfectly, and he is now given a second chance to live. Almost at that very moment he begins to have visions of Jesus, which match the opening of the film pertaining to the last moments in Jesus’s life. Abbud is unaware of the extent of this miracle, as he is now preoccupied mourning the death of Louis, and also needs to get back to Los Angeles since he has learned that his little sister Raima has become quite ill. Peter and Jennifer, who realize that something extraordinary has occurred, provide him with an open airline ticket to New York, and give him access to an old car that he can pick up in the City and drive to L.A. Abbud’s journey will indeed become a pilgrimage in finding what has been destined for him. And it won’t be easy. Initially he will be challenged by the intimidating factors facing all strangers in the Big Apple. Anxious to get on the road, he will be further challenged when he discovers that his mode of transportation is a stick-shift, when he barely even knows how to drive an automatic. Next, while traveling through Pennsylvania, he will have the misfortune to hit a deer, practically wreck the car, and become further pressed financially. But somehow he will find his way out of these situations, hook up with a fine old dog who will become his intimate companion, and meet people and confront situations that will push all his buttons, but ultimately add to his needed growth. As he becomes aware of his increasing special-ness, he will fight it tooth and nail. After all, he’s a seventeen year old, red-blooded young lad and wants nothing to do with the increasingly powerful perceptions he has of his fellow human beings, nor the myriad of visions that he’s suddenly experiencing on a daily basis. During a larkish experience in a sweat lodge in a Native American region of the West, he begins to have even more extraordinary insights and psychic experiences, and people are now noticing this especially when he begins to physically generate an amazing mystical glow. By this time his perceptions and insights are strong and ongoing. Indeed he’s constantly psychically experiencing the moans, screams, laughter and hysteria pertaining to human expression of all kinds. His sense of compassion nearly overwhelms him. As he arrives in L.A. he will continue to fight his obvious manifest destiny, and at the same time deal with the obstacles he encounters with the people with whom he finds himself involved, including his still suffering mother, and his dying little sister. At this point he is also being tracked by those who recognize his unique and mysterious power, and want something from him. By the end of the film he will realize what he has to do and is ready to greet and minister all comers, whether they are skeptical, needy, opportunistic or even hateful. As he travels down Sunset Blvd. in attire reminiscent of J.C. he knows that his work and his whole future has been magnificently bestowed on him by God.