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
as Flannery O'Connor

Laura Linney
as Regina O'Connor

Philip Ettinger
as Robert "Cal" Lowell

Rafael Casal
as O.E. Parker

Willa Fitzgerald
as Elizabeth Hardwick

Liam Neeson
as Father Flynn

David Towne
as Buzz Cut

Steve Zahn
as Tom T. Shiftlet

Cooper Hoffman
as Manley Pointer

Nikola V. Pajic
as Thomas