Melody Brooks, en sjetteklassing med cerebral parese, er oppvakt og begavet, men siden hun ikke har språk og sitter i rullestol, får hun ikke de samme mulighetene som klassekameratene. Når en ung lærer oppdager Melodys uforløste potensiale og hun får ta del i den ordinære undervisningen, viser Melody at det hun har å si er viktigere enn måten hun sier det på.
When an aspiring blind comedian goes after his dreams, it's him and his best friend with cerebral palsy against the world, no matter what runs them over.
Jerk follows the life of acclaimed stand up Tim Renkow, who plays a heightened version of himself; an American art school dropout who needs to get a visa to stay in the UK. The only problem is that Tim has cerebral palsy. This means that people judge him… all the time. Although usually they judge him wrongly, because what they don’t realise is that inside that severely disabled, vulnerable body is a bit of an asshole.
A gay man with mild cerebral palsy decides to rewrite his identity as an accident victim and finally go after the life he wants.
