Movie Details
Original Language:English
Dayton Diaries
DirectorShimon Dotan
1 hr 7 min
Plot
Dayton Ohio has a history to be proud of engineers poets playwrights statesmen and inventors including the Wright brothers have lived and worked here and the accords that ended the war in Bosnia were signed here Little remains of this legacy today In 2021 Dayton is a povertystricken city devastated by crime unemployment and drugs Filmmaker Shimon Dotan The Settlers tries to trace the events that led to Daytons downfall In halfabandoned neighborhoods he meets young people and old single and married with children lining up for food living in improvised tents in the snow squatting in derelict buildings All got addicted to legally prescribed painkillers and were abandoned by the system With painstaking care and a lot of compassion Dotan manages to show the path of destruction left by the United States other great epidemicthe opioid plague
