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Chances: The Women of Magdalene
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Chances: The Women of Magdalene

93 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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In Nashville, an Episcopalian priest starts a program called Magdalene to help women get out of prostitution, addiction, and abuse. The film follows several women enrolled in the program as they move through its residential community, which houses them, covers their needs, and works to break the cycle that put them on the street. Interviews let the women describe their own histories rather than having a narrator summarize them, and the film stays with the practical mechanics of recovery: housing, sobriety, rebuilding relationships, finding work. It does not gloss over how often the process stalls or reverses; setbacks show up on screen alongside the gains. The camera spends most of its time inside the Magdalene houses and with the women themselves, treating the program's day-to-day operation, not just its founding idea, as the real subject. What emerges is a portrait of one specific rehabilitation model in one specific city, built from the accounts of the women who went through it.