Lead Me Home

On any given night, LEAD ME HOME reports, more than half a million Americans experience homelessness. This documentary focuses on a formally declared unhoused "state of emergency" in Los Angeles and Seattle. Problems in Oakland and San Francisco are included in this overview that takes pains to give faces and individual personalities to a group often dehumanized under the umbrella designation "the homeless." They are moms diligently raising kids and people with jobs. We see them doing things everyone else does, brushing their teeth, doing their laundry, sending their young kids off to school. The stories are heartbreaking and horrific. In one case, a social worker, who has seemingly heard and seen it all, cries right along with her client as she tells her terrible story of bad luck and good intentions.