Lorenzo Buford
Synopsis
Is there life after death? Is there a chance for true happiness? Can one live a life of endless sexual encounters? Is love truly what poets write about? The characters in A GOOD DAY TO BE ABOVE GROUND find that their dreams are their wake up call to their life after death.
Max, an ex-porn star, cannot handled the fact that he is dead and stuck in the apartment where he died and is having "dreams" of another life.
Meanwhile, his apartment has been rented to Sykes who is getting over another bad relationship and with his best friend, Cameron, is finally learning to live alone. As Sykes begins a new life, alone. He meets his neighbor, Tracey, a transgender with an active past and her sometimes bed partner, John, who is the landlord who sleeps with the tenants who don't pay their rent.
Unknown to everyone, they all have been meeting during their dream state at a bus stop that will take them back to their waking life if they have a returned bus ticket and if not, they die in their sleep. The trick is to use the bus ticket. But what if life has locked the doors of opportunity? This is a decision each one must decide. Max finds away to enter Kimberly's dreams and begins a phase where he is able to leave the apartment. As Max watches Sykes indifference to "intimacy", he begins to haunt him during his waking hours to get him out of the apartment. Their initial encounter is frightening and then becomes a barrage of insults as they argue for personal space.
As Sykes fight with his personal demons to find a semblance of a life, as Cameron prepares to exit from his fight with AIDS, as Kimberly deals with her cancer diagnosis, as Tracey comes to term with her lesbian tendencies, some find love in the most usual places, some not at all as death becomes another reality they must choose to enter or close a door to temporary and learn tomorrow might be A GOOD DAY TO BE ABOVE GROUND.
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