A Statement from the Filmmaker

“Thank you FOX 25. Thank you Norman Transcript. Thank you OVAC. Thank you every single soul that worked their fingers to the bone in order to get this project to this point and to where it’s going to go. Thank you to all those who support, have supported, and will support this project. Thank you to all the women and men who advocate on behalf of domestic violence. Thank you to the women and children who have come into the shelter – giving me THEIR stories and the tools needed in order to tell THIS story. Hopefully, through this project women will find their voice and if not, then may this project speak for them. Spread the word – stop the violence!”
~Lagueria Davis

“…It is the passion and careful intention of the film’s depiction of fear in domestic violence that allows the film to convey its message of strength and validate social advocacy.”

- The Candler Blog

Synopsis

1 in 3 women have or will be a victim of domestic violence in her lifetime. That’s a staggering statistic. Ophelia Metz is one of those women. When she opts to leave her cycle of violence, with her two children, she finds she has no place else to go, but into shelter. Sydell Thomas, a shelter worker, becomes Ophelia’s Advocate upon her arrival. Slowly, it is revealed that Sydell’s life is not unlike the lives of the women who come into shelter — for it is closer than she thinks.