Best Summer Ever (available on Hoopla and to buy or rent on streaming platforms) is a predictable summer film about adolescent yearning and intrigue, an homage to Grease and Footloose. It breaks no original ground in plot or theme and features dancing and acting that, with a few exceptions, gets a bit rustic now and then.

None of that matters in the slightest. It’s a delightful film.

Directors Lauren Smitelli and Michael Parks Randa bring us a cast of actors with Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, spinal muscular atrophy, and developmental disabilities in a film that never once mentions any of them.

Instead, we see kids of all abilities together in high school classes, sports teams, and pep rallies, inhabiting a world more kind than the one in which we live—a better world in which parents know their children will be welcome on the football team or cheerleading squad without comment about what equipment they employ to ambulate down the hall to the lunchroom.

It’s the standard teen film plot: The football star meets a pretty girl over the summer. They part in September, gaze longingly up at the moon for a while, and then, poof! Inexplicably, they find themselves in the same school confronting a mean head cheerleader who wants the football star all to herself. But here’s what’s fresh: Desire, love, joy, and aspiration exist in the lives of people with disabilities, and we get to see it.