Ride walks with Janice White of the Red Cross in GROUND ZERO of the 9th Ward, talking about what the public is not being told and has been left unknown to the rest of the world. She is amazed when finding an intact glass bowl, yet the house around it is completely destroyed. New Orleans Firefighter Adam Woodruff digs through the rubble on his daily USAR mission, however Urban Search and Rescue has turned to Recovery of the more than 1000 missing bodies. He tells how the houses he scours for cadavers is no different than his own in New Orleans East - even as a first responding Firefighter - like over 80% of the rescuers and city itself, he lost everything he owns as well. In Arabi, a grandmother Ride meets cries as she mourns the loss of the 100s of photographs she took of her grandchildren. Elsewhere at GROUND ZERO of Lakeview, Ride talks to another woman, whose mother’s house was directly in front of the levee break. She searches for a single whole teacup - anything in one piece to bring back to her mom. In this episode, we see how personal loss is, and nearly no one in the city was immune - firefighter or civilian, rescuer or victim. ABOUT THE FILM MAKER: Ride Hamilton was the only photo-journalist to never evacuate - and stay living and participating in the New Orleans community throughout Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the electricity-less, water-less, and MRE, heat, and mosquito-filled months afterwards. While instantly becoming a citizen first-responder and the …

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