Siddhartha: The Boy Who Became the Buddha

His family was happy to see him, but they had hoped to meet the Siddhartha they knew, not the Buddha he had become.

Long before he became the enlightened leader, he was a boy oblivious of the world. As the young prince navigates politics and relationships, he slowly begins to question his oppressively perfect life. Meanwhile his family struggles to maintain their deception – from banishing the old and sick to hiding their own advancing age – in the hope that they can mould him into a dutiful king. – from banishing the old and sick to hiding their own advancing age.