The Setup

When four teens—Carter (Black), Minh (Asian), Jalen (Hispanic), and Diego (White)—receive a cryptic warning that their parents have been kidnapped, they're thrown into a weeklong spree of high-stakes bank heists. But something's off. The instructions are too calculated. The surveillance too clean. And the evidence? Staged.
Then the truth hits like a gut punch:
Their parents aren't the victims—they're the architects.
Now branded as domestic terrorists and hunted like criminals, the boys must unravel The Setup—a covert government program designed to mold kids into weapons without their knowledge. Betrayed by the people who raised them, the only way out is through the lies they were born into.
How do you take back your life...
when the system owns your soul?
Raw, cinematic, and deeply human, The Setup is a heart-pounding coming-of-age thriller about brotherhood, betrayal, and the fight to reclaim your own story—before someone erases it.