A Troubled Girl Is Dropped Off At Another Foster Home. But Who Comes To The Door? Inspiring Children often have many different emotions when they are dropped off into foster care. They can feel sad, lonely, unwanted. One feeling that is ubiquitous to most every foster child is a sense of anger. Theyre angry at their biological parents for abandoning them; theyre angry with the system for putting them in a new unfamiliar setting. And of course, theyre afraid. This spectrum of emotion is quite understandable when a child is uprooted so suddenly. The groundbreaking short film below, a film called ReMoved by Nathanial Matanick, tries to capture this violent emotional upheaval that these kids experience. It explores the emotional journey of a young girl, removed from her dysfunctional home, taken away from her baby brother who she longs to protect, and put into foster care. The film can be heartbreaking, but it gives us insight into the trauma that these children face at such a young age. It will probably make you cry, just a warning. The Santa Barbara independent wrote of Matanicks film: It would be impossible to fully understand the life and emotions of a child going through the foster care system, but this short narrative film portrays that saga in a poetic light, with brushes of fear, anger, sadness, and a tiny bit of hope. The little girl named Zoe (played by Abby White) is forced to deal with the terrifying acts of an abusive father, and a mother who is more interested in protecting her husband from being arrested than from protecting her children. The foster system that is supposed to save Zoe fails her time and time again. The child is despondent, and running out of hopeuntil a miraculous twist at the end brings the whole story together. What did you think of this story? Was it insightful? 