Three prayers. Three confessions. Three views on the history of the African-American family - a long and difficult history that begins during the war between the North and South and stretches until the 30s of the 20th century. Three desperate, heartbreaking screams - to the heavens and into the depths of one’s own soul. A black preacher, exhausted under the weight of long-standing sin, furiously calls out to the Lord. His sister, an involuntary participant in a distant drama, laments sorrowfully. The priest's wife, the mother of his stepson John, whose past hides her own tragedy, desperately argues with the cruelty of human and God's judgment. And what about young John himself? He is still preparing to find his own voice. Your own view of the past, present and future, of earthly and heavenly, sinful and holy. What will John pray to the Lord for? And whose prayers will the Lord hear?