Ray of Lightning

A helpful, healing resident of a retirement facility in her mid-nineties calls herself Grace. The staff welcomes a new 96-year-old resident, the well-known African American film score composer Dr. Allen DeMark. Grace initiates a conversation with him about the shared memories of their youth. He shows no recognition of her but they both know stories from the past of RayAnne Damping, a young woman made famous for her extraordinary preaching and miraculous healing ministry in the 1930’s. The stories materialize in their presence as Ray presses him to remember a certain Eddie Noble, music director of RayAnne’s ministry. The unscrupulous publicist Bradford Ranken used him to destroy the ministry, and the love between Eddie and RayAnne. DeMark hides a past too dangerous to reveal but which torments him to this day. Can Grace reach into the past violence and heal the wounds of his youth?