00:01Why are you here?
00:03We don't have anywhere to sleep tonight.
00:05So you're homeless?
00:07I had a home and then we left it.
00:12Do you want to call the cops now? It's not too late.
00:14And say what? That he didn't hit me?
00:18We need to get you off the streets.
00:21There's beds at the domestic violence shelter.
00:24You're here. You can breathe.
00:28I'm Alex.
00:29I'm trying to piece together how I got here.
00:32My mom is undiagnosed bipolar and she's M.A. right now.
00:38I got into college.
00:39I wanted to be a writer, but I got pregnant.
00:43Now I'm a single mom.
00:46You on parole?
00:47No.
00:48You got a problem with background check?
00:49No.
00:50This is a trial.
00:51Oh, I'm starting today.
00:52That's good news, ain't it, broke girl?
00:55We compost.
00:56The bin is labeled, come, host.
00:59Can you read or should I show you?
01:00I can read.
01:04Oh.
01:06I don't think I can do this.
01:08So quit.
01:09I can't quit.
01:11I live for my daughter.
01:17Alex, I haven't had a drink today.
01:19You don't leave a good man when he's trying.
01:23Before they bite, they bark.
01:25I pay all the bills.
01:27Let you hang out with my friends.
01:28I do everything for you.
01:30Before they hit you, they hit near you.
01:37It grows like mold.
01:41Miss Russell, did you file a police report on the night you left?
01:44No.
01:45You can't take a child away like that.
01:46It's grounds for losing custody.
01:48This is an emergency.
01:50You are an emergency.
01:58Don't ever let anybody take advantage of you.
02:04You will never, ever control me again.
02:09When I think about the house I want for my daughter and me, it's not big and full of stuff.
02:15Our space is a home because we love each other.
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