Early on in our introduction to Cindy – one of the five main characters in Nicolas Steiner’s documentary "Above and Below" – we see her hauling a discarded couch to restore her living room after the latest rain showers have decimated the makeshift home she shares with her partner Rick. She lives in a tunnel under the streets (another character Lalo lives also lives there), a mere stone’s throw away from the flashing lights of Las Vegas, hidden from the public eye. But as the saying goes, “it’ll all come out in the wash” in this nakedly honest portrait of five unusual Americans.
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