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Told from the first person, BROUGHTUPSY follows 20-year-old Akúa as she attempts to reconstruct her fractured family by flying from Canada to her native Jamaica to reconnect with her estranged older sister Tamika, her younger brother Bryson's ashes in tow. As she tries to get closer to her sister and put her brother to rest, Akúa's confronted with the difficult realities of being gay in a deeply religious family, of feeling separate from her home culture after years of living abroad, and of battling the grief of losing her mother and then her brother at pivotal moments in her young life.

As she spreads her brother’s ashes while home in Kingston, Akúa meets Jayda, a bashful young woman who shows her a different side of the city and gives her a glimmer of hope of how to be at peace with her sister and herself. At its core, BROUGHTUPSY asks us all: what are we willing to do for family? And what are we willing to do to savor the feeling of home?