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Early in her life, Bea (Kiernan Shipka) realized that her family was not the same as other children. The only child of two parents with intellectual disabilities, she Bea already enjoyed a degree of independence when her schoolmates still had their dinner cut and shoelaces tied. She was surrounded by warmth and joy, living first in a van and then in a modest house on the outskirts of Las Vegas. But she, too, felt compelled to take on responsibilities beyond her tender age.  This emphatically moving coming-of-age film was inspired by director Matt Smukler's own family: he's already explored in a documentary of the same title the story of his niece, Christine, an honors student who also cares for her brain-injured parents. . The image explores the chaos and confusion of extended families who find themselves with a common goal but no consensus on how to achieve it. She practically vibrates with the force of her good intentions. But she may be too opinionated on the message to win ...