In the child's best interest

Ilona is a divorced mother and owner of two companies. Her life consists of working and fighting to get along with her children. She hasn't seen the youngest two for over three years. When her eldest daughter Myrthe is taken away from her, she seems to have lost everything. But she won't give up the fight.

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“Although the system focused upon in the documentary is the child protective services in the Netherlands, what this Dutch mother and her children went through is strikingly similar to what mothers in the US encounter in their interactions with the American child protective services system and with the family court system in general.”

Dr. Mo Hannah founder Battered Mothers Custody Conference