A new documentary looks at women who survived domestic violence -- then faced jail time

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3. A hard film to watch.

It’s not just the survivors’ grief that animates the film. Much of its forward momentum is provided by Dadou Brown, who aptly describes the pain of being abused and then disbelieved by the legal system. “I felt that I was screwed over by the same system that I used to go to for help,” Dadou Brown told me in an interview, noting that she had police reports and hospital records that corroborated her prior abuse.

Which makes the Rittenhouse verdict even harder to accept.