Growin' up
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Oscar Piastri, a quiet Australian engineering student on scholarship at UCL, meets Lando Norris, a wealthy, magnetic media arts major. Amid late-night study sessions, jealousy-fueled parties, and shared passions for Formula 1, their slowburn connection grows into love—real, complicated, and brave enough to bridge their different worlds.
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- Part 1 of Growin' up
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8 months into their relationship Oscar joins boyfriend Lando’s ultra-wealthy family at their Mediterranean villa, he’s awed, but also painfully out of place. As polished privilege clashes with quiet self-doubt, Oscar navigates awkward breakfasts, glamorous boat rides, and late-night truths. With help from Lando and the vibrant Rosa, he discovers he belongs, without changing a thing.
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- Part 2 of Growin' up
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Two years into their relationship, Oscar and Lando are in their final year at UCL. When Ella—Oscar's brilliant, stylish, and fiercely loyal best friend from Melbourne visits, Lando experiences jealousy for the first time. As old memories and new insecurities surface, the trio navigate friendship, love, and what it means to feel truly chosen.
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- Part 3 of Growin' up
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After more than two years together, Oscar brings Lando to Australia for a proper, in-person introduction to his family. They’ve met before—through screens, on birthdays and holidays—but this is different. This is real hugs, awkward silences, home-cooked meals, and navigating who you are when the person you love sees you around the people who made you.
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- Part 4 of Growin' up
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Oscar and Lando are graduating and about to move in together. Oscar has landed a coveted internship with McLaren, and Lando is preparing to join his father’s media firm. Graduation day brings both families together for the first time—an emotional, occasionally chaotic celebration of how far they’ve come and everything that lies ahead.
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- Part 5 of Growin' up
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Oscar and Lando are finally living together in London. Oscar’s thriving—he’s settled in at McLaren, and after just a few months, they want to offer him a full-time position. But while Oscar’s confidence grows, Lando is crumbling under the pressure of working for his father’s media firm. He keeps pushing, performing, trying to prove he belongs—until he can’t anymore. With Rosa’s help, he finally learns that it’s okay to want something different.
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- Part 6 of Growin' up
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Oscar and Lando are finally steady—emotionally, professionally, and personally. But when questions about the future arise—moving, careers, long-term plans—they start to realize that being in love isn’t the end of the journey, but the place from which you build. When Ella and Charles arrive in London, freshly engaged in their own career discussions, their clarity prompts Lando and Oscar to ask: what are we building next?
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- Part 7 of Growin' up
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On the 8-year anniversary of their first meeting, Lando leads Oscar back to where it all started—into a quiet lecture hall filled with fairy lights, photographs, and the life they’ve built together. There, beneath the soft hum of memory and love, Lando asks the only question that still matters.
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- Part 8 of Growin' up