ABOUT:

Sarah expected to have a family that replicated the one of her childhood home. However, when her second child, Adam, is diagnosed with behavioral challenges, she soon realizes that raising her son and keeping her family afloat will be far from the calm and easy pace of her past. Brilliant follows Sarah as she and her husband work to support Adam, although often falling short on providing him what he needs. After years of advocating to public institutions to help her son be accepted, his behaviors become too dangerous and leave Sarah lost with how to help him. Sarah and her husband are faced with an impossible choice of removing their son from their home to a place where we can receive the therapeutic help he needs, or continuing to face the daily struggles of fighting both for and against him.

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Every family is different. However, within every family, one thing remains the same; the love parents have for their children. When you’re a parent and you see your child struggling, you can’t help but want to do anything in your power to make things better for them. However, there are no guide books on how to parent your individual child. You do the best you can, but that doesn’t mean you always get it right. You have to hope that one day, when they are much older, your child will realize you did the best you could and you did it all from love.