This is overall a wonderful story about the problems of a community that's not too well known to outsiders. Domestic abuse no matter which community its occurring in is a topic that's still laden with taboos and needs to be dragged out into the public sphere a lot more than is currently happening, so kudos to the producers for bringing the subject out to air - especially in the context of this mysterious and (to outsiders) unknown community of the Hmong in the US.
As a European broadcaster however I feel that there's just too much (needless) narration in there. Why US stations feel that the American narrator needs to tell a story that the interviewees are doing perfectly well is something that continues to perplex me. In this case the speakers were good, their English fine and clear, their stories powerful. The male narrator's storyline just got in the way and sucked out quite a lot of emotion from what is in the end an appalling human rights story. An abused wife finally leaves her husband, we're told as some unnecessary music elbows its way in. Then we move onto another speaker. My response as a listener, as a woman, as a mother is "hang on - did she take her kids with her? Where did she go? How did she survive?" I wanted to know the answers but only get some information of her fate at the end of the programme, though not nearly as much as I would have liked.
However it's an easy listen and the time flies by - there are great stories in here and lots of interesting information about a traditional community coping with integration.