American Documentary

A father’s duty is to provide the necessities of life and protection for their families. In the Colvard family, however, this sacred trust was violated and the crime was particularly heinous. Chico Colvard’s three sisters survived severe emotional and physical abuse and repeated forcible rape at the hands of their father. At ten years old, Chico accidentally triggered a series of events that uncovered this secret and thirty years later armed with his camera he seeks to understand how his father has manipulated and controlled an entire family for life and the depth of his sisters’ capacity to forgiveness.