About This Show

In 1958, 18-year-old Paul Bethul lives with his single Mother in the seaside town of Half Moon Bay, California; just 30 miles south of San Francisco. Paul has been raised sheltered, religious, pious; only knowing the likes of Stanford University and Our Lady of the Pillar, their local Catholic Church.

When Paul is asked by a professor at Stanford to apply for an internship, he needs to show proof of citizenship; i.e. a birth certificate.

Never seen it, Paul asks his Mother for the paper. She refuses.
What happens next will change his life forever as he ventures…
BEYOND THIS PLACE