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-> '''Adam:''' "Why'd you leave? Why here? You picked somewhere really far away."
-> '''Chris:''' "I don't know. Had to get away I guess. Just get out. Probably seems really stupid now..."

Adam Chester (Thomas Fitzgerald) is introduced on the phone with his girlfriend Arianna, having just flown into England from Ireland. He's here to see his half-brother Chris Barry (Bobby Calloway). Things appear to be very tense and distant between the brothers - which is odd because a picture on Adam's phone from a few years back shows them looking very close. After a few moments of awkward small talk, Adam goes out to walk around the area.

* WhatNowEnding: The film ends with Adam and Chris walking off, unsure of what to do next.

* BlueIsHeroic: Subverted. Chris is wearing blue but he's something of the antagonist. [[spoiler: Upon his HeelRealization he's now wearing purple]].

The trailer can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ncFzXz23o0 here]], and some [[https://betterwithbob.wordpress.com/2018/02/13/bobbys-highlights-from-the-set-aaron/ production details]].

Chris receives a distressed phonecall from their mother while Adam is out - and discovers that Adam actually left without telling them. This proves to be something of a last straw for Chris, who reads Adam the riot act as soon as he returns. Adam appears to have a history of troubled behaviour, with Chris and their parents repeatedly having to bail him out. Adam responds to Chris's taunts with an unusually angry "you don't know ''shit''!" and storms out. He reappears hours later drunk off his mind, passing out on the lawn.

When Adam regains consciousness, things are a little better between the brothers, and Adam reveals the reason he's here. Two years ago, he got Arianna pregnant and their parents tried to cover it up. The plan was to give the baby up for adoption as soon as it was born, but she suffered a miscarriage. He was forbidden from speaking about it, and that's why he left home without telling their parents. He also reveals that the baby was a boy.

In the final scene, Adam addresses his dead son alone in Chris's back garden and wishes him a happy birthday. Chris is then seen leaving the house with Adam, implying they'll be going on some kind of trip together. As they start walking, Adam reveals that he would have named his son Aaron.

* BittersweetEnding: Despite Chris discovering his family's unpleasant secret, he and Adam seem to be working to rebuild their relationship by the end.

* ConvenientMiscarriage: Deconstructed. Arianna's miscarriage was anything but convenient, and Adam is still troubled by the loss of his baby two years later.
* DeadPersonConversation: Adam speaks to his son at the end.

* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Well abortion is illegal in Ireland - so Arianna was going to carry her baby to term.

* MaybeEverAfter: Non-romantic example. The film's ending leaves it open whether or not the brothers will rebuild their friendship.

* MyBelovedSmother: Mrs Chester forced Adam to keep his girlfriend's pregnancy a secret - even from his brother - to the degree that Adam had to flee the country to tell Chris.

** The SecondaryCharacterTitle for a deceased baby is one to ''{{Film/Junebug}}''.

** Adam delivering a monologue to a dead person is one to ''Film/SunshineCleaning''.

* SignificantWardrobeShift: After reconciling, both Adam and Chris are now wearing matching clothes.
* TeenPregnancy: Adam is twenty, and the pregnancy is said to have happened "two years ago", putting him at either seventeen or eighteen.

* TitleDrop: Aaron is the name that Adam was going to give his son.

* UnPerson: Adam's parents have been trying to do this to Aaron, pretending the pregnancy never happened.

** The tag line "his past is not today" references the song from the ''Franchise/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'' franchise.

''Aaron'' is a 2017 Irish short film concerning a troubled relationship between two brothers.

Adam Chester (Thomas Fitzgerald) is introduced on the phone with his girlfriend Arianna, having just flown into England from Ireland. He's here to see his older brother Chris (Bobby Calloway). Things appear to be very tense and distant between the brothers - which is odd because a picture on Adam's phone from a few years back shows them looking very close. After a few moments of awkward small talk, Adam goes out to walk around the area.