A Thousand and One

In 1994, hairdresser and convicted thief Inez de la Paz is released from Rikers Island and returns to Harlem, where she sees her son Terry with other children from his foster home. When Terry is hospitalized after trying to escape from the home, Inez visits him. He tells her about his earliest memory: of Inez abandoning him on a street corner when he was two years old. Visibly shaken, Inez asks if Terry wants to come live with her. When he says yes, Inez abducts him from the hospital.