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\nUpward Bound is not a place anyone dreams o f spending their days. The dreary adult daycare center for Los Angeles's d isabled community is\, for many of its clients and staff\, a place of last resort. This includes Carlos\, a young aide who lost his mother as a boy and now works there alongside his beloved sister Delia\; Jorge\, the gentl e nonverbal giant whom Carlos seeks to befriend (and prevent from escaping )\; Tom\, a beautiful young man with cerebral palsy\, who pines for Ann\, the summer lifeguard at the center's pool who feels out of her depth\; the n there's Mike\, Upward Bound's director who came to L.A. to pursue an act ing career but now channels his passion into staging an impressive holiday show starring the center's sorely underestimated clients. Framing these i nterlocking narratives - and connecting them in surprising\, shattering wa ys - is the riveting and sometimes ironic testimony of Walter\, a recent c ommunity college graduate who\, after a family tragedy\, must return to th e company of his disabled peers.
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