They lie low for a while, though it soon becomes sadly clear that nobody's really looking for Terry, who's just one of many kids who've slipped through the cracks of the foster-care system. Terry was sent to foster care when Inez went to prison, and while he resents her for leaving him, he'd clearly rather be with her again than in his current situation.Īnd so when Terry has an accident at home, Inez impulsively springs him from the hospital and takes him to the Harlem neighborhood where she grew up. We don't know much about her, but Teyana Taylor, the electrifying actor who plays her, tells us plenty just from the brashly confident way Inez strides through her old Brooklyn stomping grounds after a year away.Īs she greets old friends and looks for work as a hairdresser, Inez is determined to put the past behind her - though that becomes impossible when she runs into her 6-year-old son, Terry, on the street. ![]() ![]() Teyana Taylor and Aaron Kingsley Adetola play a mother and son in A Thousand and One.Ī Thousand and One begins in 1994, shortly before a 22-year-old woman named Inez is released from Rikers Island.
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