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09.47.34

STREET GVS NYC

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09.46.58 EXT HANNAH’S HOUSE

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02.50.50 PHOTO OF HANNAH

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10.15.01 BROLL OF HOME INTERIOR

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10.16.17 DOG

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09.04.06 SIGN SAYING THANK YOU

MUSIC

08.11.11 At the highest point, about two months ago, there were nine of us living here. There was someone on the couch and then there were three or four people sleeping in my son's room, all crammed together on the bed. And then my office, there were two more people.

REVEAL HANNAH IN IV CUT BETWEEN IV

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09.15.58 HANNAH WALKS DOWNSTAIRS

09.22.25 KETTLE BOILING

09.23.14 POURING COFFEE

09.31.09 TAKES COFFEE TO MIGRANT

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09.43.27 HANNAH GIVES RAULI COFFEE

09.45.00 KEVIN AT DOOR

MASTER IV SHOT:

D4_C300_C2 08.06.10 My name's Hannah Wolf.08.06.14

08.06.38 And six months ago I started volunteering with TEAM TLC, greeting people at Port Authority coming in.

It's where the immigrants being shipped up, maybe up to 600 a day are arriving.

08.18.01 Team TLC said, "Can you take someone in for a night or two?" And that was the beginning.

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09.09.42 SIGN ON DOOR RE BINS

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09.08.06 RAULI DOING DISHES

08.48.34 CU DISHES
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08.58.26 KEVIN READING BOOK AT TABLE

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08.53.21 HANNAH IN KITCHEN WITH RAULI

HANNAH: I knew that I would have a very bad empty nest syndrome when my son left

I've already been fostering animals for many years but I was thinking of being a foster parent. So it feels like I'm doing that basically

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SHOTS OF NYC STREETS + EMERGENCY HOUSING + MIGRANTS

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10.56.07 MIGRANT HOTEL

10.56.40 MIGRANTS

10.57.30 MIGRANT HOTEL

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Since last spring more than 50,000 migrants have come to New York. [1]

It’s the only big city in the USA required by law to shelter anyone who asks.

But emergency shelters are overwhelmed.

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10.20.22 BUS TERMINAL

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10.24.11 BUSY STREETS PPL WITH LUGGAGE

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10.23.56 SHOTS OF MIGRANT VENDOR

D4_C300_C2 08.22:16: They're coming off the buses and they just get dumped spewed out under the mean streets with no direction, nothing,

Some of the people who ended up here had been turned away from three shelters. It was five degrees [Fahrenheit] out. One of the team members I work with had found them crying and freezing on the street without proper clothing.

08.24.29: It's mainly nonprofit and religious, different organizations who are stepping in to really help people.

HANNAH’S HOUSE

RAULI PHONE CALL IN BED

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09.40.35 Darling, I lot you a lot. And I miss you.

RAULI PHONE CALL

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HANNAH: Raulimar is 29, she's from Venezuela. She has three children.

UPSOT09.40.50 Yes, I miss you a lot. Son: Me too. 09.40.56

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To make it here, Raulimar trekked

the deadly Darién Gap.

Unable to afford safe passage for her children, she had to leave them behind with her parents.

RAULI PHONE CALL

RAULI IV

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RAULI: Obviously, I migrated for my kids.

RAULI: It still hurts. *tears up* But…I do try to not let it get to me, having left them. Now it's my turn to fight. There’s nothing else to do other than to miss them

and to work to be with them soon.

SHOTS OF KEVIN AT HOME

08.14.05 Kevin is 20 and he is from Ecuador. . He finished high school, which is unusual in his family. They're very, very poor.

KEVIN GOING TO TRAIN STATION

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I left Ecuador because...the crisis in my country made things worse and I had to migrate because my mother is a single mother. And I had to help her because I have two siblings, two younger than me

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OVER SHOTS OF TRAINS

Kevin and Raulimar are applying for asylum,

but they join a queue with over

180,000 backlogged cases.

HANNAH HELPING KEVIN WITH PAPERS

RAULI DOING DISHES

Hannah (30:10):

The biggest challenge, I mean, I still have people saying, "Do you need socks? Do you need a casserole?" I'm like, "No." It's 15,000 a person for a lawyer. Where is that money going to come from? The lawyers are booked out for years. Without representation no one will get their papers.

(30:43):

The other is finding work...they're separated from their families.// They want to bring their kids over, their partner, their mother, whatever, whoever and that takes papers and money.

SHOTS OF THEM TOGETHER ON RAULI’S BED

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Interviewer (33:58):

Do you worry at all for Rauli and Kevin?

HANNAH: (34:01):

Yes, I do. I would do anything for them in the same way that I would do anything for my son, really. (39:59):

08.06.52 Kevin and Riley, I really like them and this is now their home. They can stay here forever

(39:25): It feels like family, definitely.