TURNOUT

Javier Caudillo, an idealistic college grad gentrified out of New York City and into Buffalo, finds his dream job. He hopes to take what he learns while community organizing in the third poorest city in the country and one day get back home to change things in NYC for his parents. But he falls in love with a local woman with similar ambitions and finds that motivating people to fight for their liberation is harder than it seems. He butts heads with his co-workers, who seem content to ignore the forgotten youth most at risk in the inner city, and hopes that his efforts to recruit Truvon, a woke but hardened street hustler, prove that he can TURN OUT those who need to fight the hardest. But with Javier, his girlfriend Serena, and seemingly everyone who’s door he knocks on crippled by some kind of vice, he confronts the question of whether one person can really change anything. Complicating the matter is a well connected puppetmaster, who lures Javier’s boss at People United For Leadership and Leverage to go against the non-profit’s principles.