The co-director of this bracing doc about the impact of Texas’ anti-abortion laws discusses hanging on a trial’s every twist and turn. After growing up in Corpus Christi, Maisie Crow had moved to New York to pursue a career in photojournalism, surely thinking as many before her have that it was where she could tell stories of the greatest scope when it is the cultural capital for so many industries. Yet in 2016, she was drawn back to Texas when she and her husband wanted to tackle the ever-present and precarious issue of life along the U.S./Mexico border and unexpectedly the two ended up inheriting a weekly newspaper The Big Bend Sentinel, where she would become friends and collaborators with one of its reporters Abbie Perrault. For those on the outside looking in, this could’ve looked like Crow was downsizing her ambitions, but when her home state has become a bellwether for so much going on in America, it now appears like she couldn’t have found any bigger stories to tell and the country itself couldn’t have found someone better to tell those stories.