(a prodigal daughter returns to Florida)

In this late bloomer coming of age, a first generation American woman faces her religious past  when she has to move back in with her Brazilian family in Florida and encounters people that she hoped to never see again.

In 2010, Alex leaves home at 18 because she’s had enough. A faithful LDS (Mormon) girl from a Brazilian immigrant family, she is bullied in school because she is not exactly “Christian” or “Latina” enough. She faces her teenage angst and faith questioning without much support from her parents, who can’t speak English well and have to work hard jobs. After witnessing the death of a high school peer, Jesus, by the hands of her best friends, she wants to erase Florida from her memory.

We first meet her 13 years later as her past unfolds in a parallel narrative.

It’s 2023, and her Los Angeles dreams have gone up in smoke with her drug addiction. She is broke and she has been evicted. At 32, the prodigal daughter returns home to face the day of reckoning.

Coming to Jesus is a Fine Frenzy Films and Set Vision Studios partnership between writer/director Aline Andrade and producer Gabriela Lima.

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