Summary

Villavicencio travels to Willard, Ohio to meet with children who watched their father, Javier, being deported in 2017 even though he lived and worked in the United States for 16 years. The four children, American citizens, ages six to 14, are often unsupervised because Patricia, their mother, now the only income producer, must work long hours. Since the father was the only one who could drive, family members must walk three miles back and forth to the grocery store.

All the children miss their father and express it in various ways. Andres, 14, believes he must take over the role of man of the house, looking after the younger children and grocery shopping. Omar is quiet and stoic. Elias, 10, misses how his father would buy him small treats and make him laugh. The youngest, Greta, stopped eating regularly when her father left. Javier would like the family...