Trish Adlesic's documentary for HBO centers on those impacted by the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, featuring interviews with victims, survivors and other members of the community.
Through interviews with survivors, family members of slain victims, and other local community representatives, director Trish Adlesic charts a rough course from the days immediately following the attack to the months and years of healing after, though it’s not always clear watching the film which bits of footage were captured when.
In one particularly haunting anecdote, survivor Audrey Glickman fixates on the fact that she could not call 9-1-1 during the shooting because she’d left her phone on the pew when it wouldn’t fit into her pockets. “It was a poor decision, and I’ll never go to the synagogue again without pockets big enough to have my phone on me,” she explains with wrenching pragmatism.