S9.E8 ∙ Episode #9.8

When society strips you of your voice, can you hope for a second chance? One woman's extraordinary journey out of the darkness. Auckland 'outsider artist' Susan King stopped talking when she was four. Her grandmother recognized the little girl's talent for drawing and kept her supplied with colored pencils and paper. For 20 years Susan expressed herself in thousands of artworks filled with playfulness, curiosity and terror. Then she stopped drawing. Her pictures were carefully packed away into boxes. She had 20 years of silence before she drew again. Now, the dealer world has discovered Susan's art Brut. A 2009 Sydney show has garnered international demand with an ethical quandary for the family who can only guess at Susan's wishes.

Celebrations of spring in the Roma neighborhood in Edirne, Turkey.

One in ten families in the D/FW are is affected by a family member who has a disability. 92% of Texans with intellectual disabilities do not receive any form of state aid. The Soaring Eagle Center was created with one question in mind: What can we do about it?

Frances Cinderella Garcia is a developmentally disabled Pilipino immigrant. Her brother Benjamin Garcia works for the North Los Angeles County Regional Center which provides services to people with developmental disabilities. Their story describes how Pilipino families with special needs children have built a community of support in the North Los Angeles area of California.

A road movie documentary about a 17 year old English Blues musician (Blues Beaten Redshaw) who traveled a 1800 km journey on a 1948 Ferguson tractor, from North England, through France, into Switzerland. During his trip he played gigs at bars and music festivals and did some street performances raising money for charity. An HD film bringing together, agriculture, Blues music, vintage tractors and 'Cigar box guitars', featuring great rural landscapes and interviews with local habitants.

A former hippie-turned-messiah, his wife, and their son - a wunderkind artist, writer, and inventor - flee the conservative Bulgarian society on their chaotic Noah's Ark constructed inside a crumbling basement in downtown Sofia. He Who Travels Alone examines this family over the span of a decade, offering an intimate look at their self-imposed exile into eccentricity and their dogged pursuit of spiritual growth.