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"Motherland” documents the emotional and physical journey of six women who lost sons, daughters or siblings, and are sent on a 17-day mission to South Africa to care for disadvantaged. This is about people who are nearly guaranteed to never recover from their tragedies, but are given an unusual chance to offer motherly love for others when their own loved ones are taken from them.

Jennifer Steinman’s documentary has a built-in emotional pull — having a child die is that most feared of personal tragedies for parents, and all the women in "Motherland” detail the stories that have defined and shaped every day afterward. Three died in traffic accidents, two were murdered and one committed suicide, and their mothers and siblings were all emotionally incapacitated by their losses.

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