Love and Diane

The film traces the story of a black American family caught in the trap of crack and cocaine, and bitterly observes how misfortune passes through three generations. Jennifer Dworkin first met Love and her mother Diane in 1989, while she was running a photo workshop at a social centre in one of the ghettos. For twelve years, she accompanied their painful experience from the moment little Love tells her teacher that her mother is a crack addict who often abandons her, along with her brothers and sisters, for weeks at a time. The six children are taken from Diane’s care and placed in various homes. The long-awaited day arrives when the family is reunited, but they hardly recognise each other. A few years later, Love in turn finds it hard to assume her role as a mother, fearing that she may have transmitted the HIV virus to her baby. The social services are called in after a fight and take her child away from her…