Letting Go

A young woman in medical school, eager to tout science, witnesses the spiritual world clashing with the natural world, bringing to light deep family secrets and unspeakable evils. The story centers around the subject of African American culture, what goes on in the grassroots of the church community and even within the households and fabric of the culture. The film, explores the spiritual world as it impacts the natural world. Michelle Jamieson (Jennifer Jayleen Martinez) is too smart for faith. She has been raised in the tired traditions of her deeply religious family and is ready to expand her independent thought and stand in her logical, free-will. When the opportunity arises for her to separate from her Washington D.C. home and her bible-thumping parents, she takes a scholarship for her sought after medical program at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Eager to base her beliefs in the proof of science and develop her life decisions on the tangible experience of medicine - where every effect has a root cause and miracles come in the form of prescription slips; she wisps across the country to find her path, her truth. But what she finds supersedes her natural existence - making her mortality vulnerable to the spiritual realm she so comfortably doubted. Michelle stays in a Minneapolis mansion, a family property dating back many generations. She begins to encounter strange and unexplainable occurrences. As she is forced to investigate, what she uncovers is a world of family secrets and unspeakable evils that God himself may not save her from. In whose name will she cry out now? —Anonymous