S3.E6 ∙ Criminology

'Stranded In The Motor City' travels through the lives of the Barnes family, who have been stranded by poverty, their own choices, and life itself. Andrelia Barnes-Wilson, started life with infinite potential, graduating high school at age fifteen. Then life struck with a violent blow, as her husband and the father of her four boys was brutally murdered in the streets of Detroit. This, along with numerous other tragedies, reshaped her life, leading her to choose a path of drugs and alcohol- a change that eventually caused her to slip into a coma that lasted fifteen years. In addition Andrelia's middle child, Dwayne Barnes, decision at the age of nineteen to leave his brutal reality of Detroit to pursue his dreams of becoming an actor/entertainer in Hollywood,. In spite of his odds, he does exactly that. It's the choices that we make, regardless of our environment, that determines one's destiny.

This surprisingly open and revealing documentary follows two years in the private life of a minister. Marilyn Sewell is successful and beloved in the pulpit, but behind the scenes she is lonely and yearning for change. As she considers leaving the ministry, she realizes she will be leaving her only social network. Yet when she falls in love for the first time, she realizes she does not trust intimacy. A study in contrasts, Marilyn must rely on raw faith as she questions her future, her difficult past, her God, and most importantly... her ability to love.

A documentary on the theology of human suffering that describes the epidemic of obesity and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in American society, and their link to a moral, physical, and spiritual suffering in the American populace. It draws the viewer into trying to comprehend the societal and individual consequences and to embrace a possible solution to this devastation.

The story of undocumented youth and the challenges they face as they turn 18 without legal status.