In 1981 when Marco Williams is a senior in college, he places a call to his estranged father, hoping to arrange a first meeting. It’s quickly evident that Williams’s father is uninterested in meeting his son, or allowing his son to film their reconciliation. Over the coming years, Williams interviews members of his family and community. A common thread emerges—women, mothers and grandmothers, have kept their households going in the absence of their male counterparts. Specifically, Williams comes back time and again to his mother, who doesn’t seem interested in talking about his father, or the reasons he was absent from Williams’s upbringing. Gradually, feelings and recollections begin to come forward. Phone calls to his father continue throughout the film, and though a meeting eventually happens, it’s Williams’s interactions with the women in his life that shape this reflection on growing up in a single-parent home.  ST