The film is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the American Democracy Project, Student Government Association, and League of Women Voters Education Fund, and the PBS Point of View film program.

This event is part of the 2006-2007 campus theme initiative of diversity and dialogue. This event is also part of the United Nations Millennium Campaign Against Poverty co-sponsored locally by the American Democracy Project and League of Women Voters.

The film is an intimate real-life drama about a mother and daughter who are desperate for love and forgiveness but caught in a devastating cycle of poverty, cocaine and the inner city.

During the 1980s, a crack cocaine epidemic ravaged many impoverished inner city neighborhoods. As parents like Diane succumbed to addiction, a generation of children like Love entered the foster care system. Shot over a 10 year period, the film centers on Love and Diane after the family is reunited and is struggling to reconnect. Now 18, and a mother herself, Love must reconcile her anger and confront the ways in which her mother's past mistakes haunt her life. Diane, in turn, makes new choices for herself, seeking to break the treadmill of addiction and poverty.

It was released in 2002 and was selected to be shown at the Sundance Film Festival and the New York Film Festival. It received the Independent Spirit Award and the Golden Leopard Award at the Locarno International Film Festival, Locarno, Switzerland.