It feels like an alarm is set at the beginning of "A Thousand and One" and we wait almost the entire movie for it to go off.
The first scene shows Inez (Teyana Taylor, who has choreographed for Beyoncé and sung with Kanye West) caring for a fellow Riker's inmate. So we're at least a little hopeful in the next scene.
Out of prison and hustling for work, she approaches a reluctant child who turns out to be her son Terry, now in shaky foster care. When she kidnaps him and they embark on an itinerant life — we see them in many homes over the movie's dozen years — we wonder how she can possibly raise a kid, on the lam, without getting caught.
