50-Word Synopsis:

Upon Felters Road: Story of the Afterschoolers follows Floyd Davis and a close-knit circle of friends growing up in Binghamton, New York. Childhood adventures become high-school triumphs, romance, and dreams for the future. But adulthood brings painful change, testing friendship, loyalty, family, and Floyd’s devotion to the community he loves.

100-Word Synopsis:

Growing up in Binghamton, New York, Floyd Davis is surrounded by family, friends, sports, music, and the everyday adventures that make childhood unforgettable. As Floyd and his close-knit circle move through adolescence, high school, relationships, athletic victories, and plans for the future, their friendships become part of who they are. But leaving childhood behind also means discovering how quickly people and communities can change. When drugs, crime, violence, betrayal, and devastating loss begin touching the world Floyd once considered safe, nostalgia gives way to harsh reality, forcing him to confront loyalty, responsibility, and how far he will go to defend home.

250-Word Synopsis:

Upon Felters Road: Story of the Afterschoolers is a nostalgic coming-of-age story about the friendships, families, places, and experiences that can define a lifetime. Growing up in Binghamton, New York, Floyd Davis shares his formative years with a close-knit group of friends whose lives become intertwined through school, sports, music, romance, celebrations, and the ordinary moments that eventually become treasured memories.

As Floyd and his friends enter high school, their world expands. Athletic success brings excitement and opportunity, relationships deepen, and conversations increasingly turn toward college, work, and the different futures waiting beyond graduation. Their senior year becomes a celebration of friendship and possibility, filled with victories, bonfires, laughter, music, and the feeling that the bonds they have created will endure whatever comes next.

Adulthood, however, changes both the friends and the community they knew. While some move forward with school, careers, relationships, and families, drugs and crime begin leaving their mark on Binghamton. Old relationships become complicated, dangerous people enter familiar circles, and violence transforms places once associated with innocence and belonging.

For Floyd, the consequences become deeply personal. Loss and betrayal force him to reckon with what has happened to the people and hometown he loves, ultimately pushing loyalty and justice into dangerous territory. Through humor, nostalgia, friendship, heartbreak, and hard choices, Upon Felters Road explores what it means to grow up—and what happens when protecting the past comes at a price.

Taglines:

• “Some roads lead home. Others never leave you.”
• “Before life pulled them apart, Felters Road brought them together.”
• “Good friends. Great memories. Hard choices.”
• “Childhood ends. Friendship leaves its mark forever.”
• “Every neighborhood has a story. Every friendship has a history.”
• “They grew up together. Life would test what growing up meant.”
• “The best days become memories. The hardest ones define us.”
• “A story of friendship, family, loyalty, and the road from innocence to experience.”
• “You can leave your childhood behind, but you can never leave behind what shaped you.”
• “On Felters Road, friendship was only the beginning.”

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