We all know that hundreds of thousands of American children spend their lives in foster care, and most of us try not to think about the subject. It's genuinely painful to think of children being bounced around from home to home, taken from abusive parents, trying to make their way in the world. I had heard good things of this film and rented it on iTunes, but swore that I'd hit the Stop button the minute it upset me. But I watched it, glued, for its entire length. We begin with a woman who's been taking in foster kids for decades (she herself grew up in a family of 18), a social worker who had been brutalised by her family, a teenage boy trying to make it, an 18 year old girl who just hopes she can, a judge who encourages the teenagers brought before him--and more. This is the kind of story telling every student of documentaries should watch, it's the kind of film concerned Americans should watch. It's about failing, it's about trying, it's about succeeding, and most of all, its about dignity.
