While we are constantly bombarded with thinkpieces asking what we are to do about the no-good kids these days, This is Our Youth gives us a window into the hearts of young people asking how are you supposed to grow up surrounded by broken adults. 

Kenneth Lonergan's earnest, relentless dialogue vividly portrays two days in the lives of three college-aged Manhattanites on a cold March weekend in 1982--each with their own reason for developing an intense frustration with the world around them. Through stupid impulsive mistakes, foulmouthed edgelord arguments, drugs, love, and happenstance, these young people stumble towards connection with each other--as they shape one anothers' understanding of the world they're living in, and who they want to be in it.

"It's like, when you find an old letter you wrote, that you don't remember writing. And it's got all these thoughts and opinions in it that you don't remember having, and it's written to somebody you don't even remember having ever written a letter to."