What does it mean to return home when a pandemic forces the world to stop? And what does it mean to return when your parents suffer from Diogenes Syndrome? Claire McFee explores this feeling in this autobiographical video essay and seeks a new meaning for the word “home”.

Even those on the front lines aren’t immune to the financial casualties of COVID-19. Dozens of healthcare workers at an emergency room in southeast Tennessee receive devastating cuts to their salaries—but the real cost could be the lives of their patients. When 26-year-old Carl Montgomery comes home from work, he immediately strips down, showers, and…