Helen and Al levitt had been making as much as 20 thousand dollars a year, very good money in the early 19 fifties. Now they had to support their two children on a fraction of that. They were broke. Their marriage was falling apart. And we tried to hide from them how terrible things were.
Helen Slote Levitt was on her way to the good life in 1950s Hollywood. Then one day, her name appeared on a list. The story of an ordinary woman whose world was upended by extraordinary times.
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