The latest offering from Angel Studios, Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot, is the true story of a predominantly black community in East Texas where twenty-two families belonging to a single church in the late 1990s adopted seventy-seven foster children.
It’s a beautiful movie.
The Reverend W. C. Martin (Demetrius Grosse) and his wife, “The First Lady” Donna Martin (Nika King), adopt four of the hardest-to-place children in the foster care system. Social worker Susan Ramsey (Elizabeth Mitchell, of Lost fame) tries to persuade the couple not to adopt a young girl called Terri (Diaana Babnicova), a child so badly traumatized that she is almost impossible to endure: she thinks she’s a cat. Yet the Martins insist. The many difficulties they face with Terri and their other adopted children, and the troubles of the other families within the church who follow their example, are detailed throughout the film.
It’s a movie about Christian charity—and how hard it can be…
Angel Studios makes normal movies for normal people in an age when that can be rare.