Recovering Irma


A soul-searching road trip winds its way across geography and generations, memories and mysteries probing for answers to the difficult question: “How do you end domestic violence?”

synopsis

Sandra was 27 when her dad called to tell her he had shot her mom and was going to kill himself. 

This act shattered the myth that her family was perfect and living the American Dream. At her parents’ funeral, Sandra and her siblings vowed that the legacy of domestic violence handed down by their father would end with them. But today – confronted with her nephew Lorenzo’s arrest for domestic violence – Sandra knows that the cycle hasn’t been broken and she has to act.