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Filmed inside the home of a woman who has taken in more animals than she can reasonably manage, this piece traces the emotional economy of care: the way she speaks to the dogs as if they were children, the way they orbit her presence like a center of gravity. The film is less about rescue as an institution and more about the human impulse to gather broken things, to insist they deserve another chance. In the Valley, stories like hers are everywhere — quiet, devoted, and rarely told.