New Doc About a Prison Father-Daughter Dance Will Bring You to Tears

Incarceration doesn’t just isolate and punish an individual. It rips people out of society and away from families, often leaving an absence as noticeable and painful as a wound.

The new Netflix-distributed documentary Daughters sounds like a sweet human-interest story about a father-daughter dance organized for prison inmates who don’t get much time with their children—and it is that, for a few fleeting moments. But much of it is a painful reminder of what’s lost in the shuffle of extended prison sentences.

The movie is loosely structured around an impending gathering grown out of an experiment begun in the Richmond, Virginia, area through Camp Diva, a program founded by Angela Patton (who is also credited as director of Daughters, alongside Natalie Rae). The idea is to bring the young daughters of inmates into a facility for a father-daughter dance, offering a chance for them to reconnect.

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