Prodigal

"You're not the son I raised." Words no child should ever hear. But in 1969, William and Rebecca McCray of Huntsville, Alabama, used those very words to disown their firstborn son Benjamin. Why? For falling in love with Stephanie Lewis -- a young black girl he met while attending Harvard. Leaving his hometown for good, Ben returns to college, eventually marrying Stephanie and settling near her family in Philadelphia. There they raise three children and become successful in their respective fields: Stephanie as a pediatric surgeon in one of the nation's top hospitals and Ben as an academic dean at the University of Pennsylvania. For more than three decades, everything was perfect...until early one Saturday morning. Ben receives a phone call from his brother Cooper telling him their mother is dying and wishes to see him before she dies. Ben returns to his hometown, only to find a mother barely cognizant of the world around him, a father still bitter over his son's interracial marriage, and a brother desperately trying to reconnect with him. Despite the challenges ahead of him, Ben stays and as his mother's final days approach, the family begins to piece itself together again, realizing they have more in common than they have differences. Prodigal is a story of family, forgiveness, and the extraordinary lengths a mother will go to in order to put her family back together.