They were bored. Director Bernard Chauly and producer Lina Tan felt they needed to do something; it had been a lull since Gol & Gincu. Chauly suggested an idea he had been toying with. A boys’ story. Tan thought it was a good subject since Gol & Gincu was basically a “girls’ story”. 

The result: RedFilms’ latest, Goodbye Boys, a digital feature about eight Form Five Scouts and five harrowing days’ journey through the Kinta Valley in 1990. A coming-of-age story, a rite of passage disguised as a road trip and the fulfilment of a King Scout’s requirement. It is a classic journey of transformation, where each character will find his true self, make new discoveries and realisations, and face up to the eventual crossroad.