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First-time filmmaker Jeffrey M. Togman's documentary examines a complex issue — the apparent intractability of poverty — through the revealingly narrow perspective of one woman's efforts to improve her family's lot through homeownership. Sheree Farmer is poor, African-American and has a lot of children — six, ranging from grade-school age to teenagers — but she's anything but the heedless single mother of popular stereotypes. Sheree got married before she began having children, has a steady job with the Veterans Administration, and doesn't drink, use drugs or party with feckless boyfriends. She's raising her children alone because, she says, her husband of 15 years b...