Trailer for the documentary Flat Daddy.
As military families across the United States continue to endure the repeated deployment of loved ones to Afghanistan and Iraq, many have attempted to fill the void with “Flat Daddies” and ”Heroes on a Stick,” life-sized cardboard cutouts of their husbands, wives, parents and children serving overseas. Using these two-dimensional surrogates as a connecting thread, Flat Daddy tells the stories of four such families, from suburban Minnesota, the Bronx, Las Vegas and rural Maine, as they unfold over the course of a year.