A dramatic feature from Cine Manifest Over-Under Sideways-Down explores the politics of everyday life in America. The film centers on a working-class couple Roy and Jan Stennis (played by Robert Viharo and Sharon Goldman) who live with their two children in a cramped tract home. An assembly line worker in a steel plant Roy entertains the escapist fantasy of moving from the local semi-pro baseball team for which he plays third base to the big leagues. "It's just a matter of being in the right place at the right time" he figures. However when Roy simultaneously loses his job (by being at the right place at the right time - coming to the defense of a black co-worker and thus being branded a trouble-maker) and his one chance to impress an interested baseball scout his life begins to unravel. The strains on his marriage increase intensified by Jan's decision to take a job and Roy begins to isolate himself both from his family and his fellow workers.
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