A trailer has arrived for “Thorough the Night,” Loira Limbal’s cinema verité portrait of a 24-hour daycare center. “I see a lot of parents come in and break down. They don’t want to do this, but they need to work and take care of their family. This is the way the world is set up at this point,” the daycare’s founder, Deloris Hogan, explains.
Along with Hogan, who has spent over two decades working in childcare, the doc focuses on a mother working the overnight shift at a hospital and a mother holding down three jobs to support her family. “I never really thought of overnight childcare until I had to use it,” one woman reveals.
Limbal told us that “Through the Night” is her “love letter to single mothers and caregivers.” She emphasized that the doc “adds complexity to the national conversation about issues that affect working class families and the working poor by centering the experiences of women and children of color.”
Described as showcasing “the multiplicity of ‘women’s work’ — paid, underpaid, and unpaid; emotional and physical; domestic and career-oriented — all while negotiating the terms of a dignified existence under the three arrows of racism, sexism, and capitalism in America,” “Through the Night” will be released December 11.
