Up From Mountains

In 1950s Jamaica, at the dawn of Kingston's "Golden Years," three lives intersect in their search for love and purpose. Cailin flees her father's estate, Lilla chases her dreams through Kingston's jazz scene, and Harry struggles to make his own path after abandoning medical school. Meanwhile, as Harry becomes entangled in a love triangle with both women, his father, Bashir, a Lebanese merchant, guards devastating secrets from war-torn Mount Lebanon.

Up From Mountains explores how love, survival, and identity collide in a Jamaica on the cusp of national transformation.

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