Rich Hill and the American dream's shadow of poverty, drugs and shame

A newly released documentary explores what goes unspoken in the US through the story of three boys in Missouri

Andrew Jewell’s home is filled with buckets used to heat water on the stove. The furniture is sparse. The walls are bare. Yet if you ask Andrew if his family is poor, he would say no.

“The definition of poor is no roof, no lights, no water, no food. We have lights. We have water. We have a roof. We have food. We have money,” he says. “We are not poor.”

That’s the thing that is partly tied to the American dream and the American myth – there is shame in these circumstances. The shame in having a need.