Film Synopsis

Diane Hazzard was a loving mother, but like other young, inner city African Americans in the 1980s, she was swept up in the crack cocaine epidemic. Inevitably, her parenting suffered with her addiction, until her own daughter, Love, only eight years old, told a teacher that she and her five siblings were often left home alone and hungry. Love's action set in motion the often unforgiving machinery of the child-welfare system. It also brought a legacy of abandonment, hurt and shame that haunts mother and daughter to this day—and which, most chillingly, threatens Love's relationship with her own baby boy, Donyaeh.