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Told through an intimate and atmospheric first-person account, 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, bringing 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 queer 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 then brother at pivotal moments in her young life.

As she spreads her brother’s ashes while home in Kingston, Akúa meets Jayda, a bashful queer 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: what are we willing to do for family? What are we willing to do to savor the feeling of home?