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Watch Our online Q&A with co-directors Catrin Einhorn and Leslye Davis, hosted by film writer and columnist Ellen E. Jones.

What comes after the fanfare and the life-changing event? Beginning as a year-long project on a US battalion, reporters-turned-filmmakers Catrin Einhorn and Leslye Davis kept filming after wounded soldier Brian Eisch returned home to his two young sons.

For almost a decade, Einhorn and Davis remained with the Eisch family, observing with great intimacy the messy, turbulent, hard graft of real life.