I really liked this short documentary drama that presents a realistic story about a social worker who looks out for the wellbeing of neglected children and it highlights some of the cases that she helps, or tries to help... It starts out with one little girl wandering all by herself in the downtown streets after dark and shows the social worker focussing on her as well as following through on several other cases where the parents or parent, who through their own bad mental health or the unfortunate circumstances that have befallen them, are unable to properly care for their children and come to realize that the best thing they can do for them is to give them to somebody else... It's very sobering and even heartbreaking at certain points but I wouldn't say it's a downright grim short film, it even offers a positive ending for one mother and her child as they are reunited but it's still quite saddening overall and it holds up very well for something that was made in the fifties. It really touched my heart and moved me a lot, in fact the scene where the girl is first taken away from her sobbing mother made me cry the first time I saw it, it's nothing short of a tragedy whenever such a thing happens. It takes a very compassionate look at the parents and doesn't condemn them but tries to show that in their own way they're victims of their own cricumstances and enviroment too, it doesn't focus on any child cruelty or abuse, just emotionally disturbed or very down on their luck people who have been worn down by poverty. This holds up well and its themes are just as relevant today, I certainly hope there were and are social workers as diligent and caring as the one in this excellent short drama out there, the world always needs that the most. "The face of the city is the face of its people."