The Upside

On one side is the millionaire Phillip, an educated art collector, a renaissance man with cultural insight and refined taste from high society, who is paralysed and confined to a wheelchair after a paragliding accident. On the other side, a black youth from the suburbs. With energy, courage and spontaneity, he should own the world, but as a recently released prisoner he has no chance of getting a job and finds the world doesn't care for him one bit. They meet rather by accident, most likely not really wanting it, Phillip chooses a lively boy almost off the street as his nurse anyway. Perhaps it was a move of desperate boredom, quite possibly a controlled suicide. Either way, their coexistence overcomes all differences after a brief distrust, and the two characters from different universes of life fit together like Lego. Their unexpected friendship offers a touching, funny and, most importantly, incredibly powerful experience.