get them. what most surprised you spending time with these folks the way you did? the most surprising thing was the sense of isolation. the sense that they re almost invisible, they have been disappeared. there isn t collective action. there really is they re lost. they re frayed, and their shame. i was stunned that some people who would talk to us off the record, when they turned t eed on, they said no, we said why? my family doesn t know, my neighborhoods don t know. that man we just saw brought his sons to the premiere of the film, and that was the first time they learned their mom was going to the food pantry to get their food. it s this internalizing that there must be something wrong with us. are they still looking for work.