
Can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness? Can illness be a blessing? In 1950, writer Flannery O'Connor visits her mother Regina in Georgia when she is diagnosed with lupus at twenty-four years old. Struggling with the same disease that took her father’s life when she was a child and desperate to make her mark as a great writer, this crisis pitches her imagination into a feverish exploration of belief.

Maya Hawke
Flannery O'Connor

Laura Linney
Regina O'Connor

Philip Ettinger
Robert "Cal" Lowell

Rafael Casal
O.E. Parker

Willa Fitzgerald
Elizabeth Hardwick

Liam Neeson
Father Flynn
David Towne
Buzz Cut

Steve Zahn
Tom T. Shiftlet

Cooper Hoffman
Manley Pointer
Nikola V. Pajic
Thomas
Caisey Cole
Jean
Wilson Conkwright
Walter

Christine Dye
Duchess

LaKeta Caston
Sullen Woman
George Sheanshang
Claud Turpin

Alessandro Nivola
John Selby

Matthew Kimbrough
Doctor Block
Demetrius T. Wheeler
Emmanuel
Mehmet Can Aksoy
Jesus

Daniel R. Hill
Tattoo Artist
Ethan Hawke
Shelby Gaines, Ethan Hawke
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