(a prodigal daughter returns to Florida)

In this late-bloomer coming-of-age story, a first-generation American woman is forced to confront her religious past when she moves back in with her Brazilian family in Florida—and comes face-to-face with the people she once swore she’d never see again.

Alex leaves home at 18 because she’s had enough. Raised in a devout LDS (Mormon) Brazilian immigrant household, she grows up feeling like she belongs nowhere—bullied at school for not being “Christian” enough, not “Latina” enough. As she wrestles with teenage angst and a crisis of faith, her parents—overworked and struggling with English—are unable to meet her emotionally.

When a high school classmate, Jesus, is killed at the hands of her own best friends, Alex decides to erase Florida—and her former life—entirely.

We meet her again 13 years later, her past unfolding in parallel to the present.

It’s present day and her Los Angeles dreams have collapsed. Broke and newly evicted, 32-year-old Alex returns home as the prodigal daughter—forced to confront the family, the faith, and the trauma she tried to outrun.

Comparable movie tones: Past Lives (2023) and Lady Bird (2017)

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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