(a prodigal daughter returns to Florida)

Alex comes face-to-face with the people she once swore she’d never see again.

In this late-bloomer coming-of-age fantasy drama, a first-generation American woman is forced to confront her religious past when she moves back in with her Brazilian family in Florida—and discovers she can see something no one else can.

At 18, Alex leaves home determined never to look back. Raised in a devout LDS (Mormon) Brazilian immigrant household, she grows up caught between cultures, faiths, and identities—never feeling American enough, Brazilian enough, or Christian enough. As she struggles with a crisis of faith and mounting isolation, her parents — overwhelmed by work and the challenges of immigration — are unable to provide the emotional support she desperately needs.

When a tragedy involving her high school classmate Jesus shatters her community and exposes the dangers of unquestioned loyalty, Alex makes a vow: she will erase Florida, her faith, and everyone connected to that painful chapter of her life.

Thirteen years later, her carefully constructed future in Los Angeles collapses. Broke, evicted, and out of options, 32-year-old Alex returns home as the prodigal daughter, forced to confront the family, faith, and trauma she spent years trying to outrun.

But homecoming brings something unexpected. Alex begins developing an unsettling ability to see a dark presence inhabiting people who have closed their eyes to themselves in the name of faith. Appearing only in fleeting glimpses through their eyes, the mysterious force seems to feed on denial, repression, and blind devotion. As the phenomenon spreads through her community—and touches those closest to her—Alex must determine whether she is experiencing a spiritual awakening, a psychological unraveling, or uncovering a truth that has haunted her family for generations.

Moving between past and present, the film explores identity, belief, grief, and belonging through a magical realist lens, following a woman who must reckon with the ghosts of her past—both real and supernatural—in order to finally see herself clearly.

In the vein of Past Lives, Black Swan and Lady Bird, this intimate fantasy drama blends emotional realism with the uncanny, exploring what happens when the stories we inherit begin to look back at us.

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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