Down in the Delta

Down in the Delta

Sometimes, the last place you expected to be is the one place you've always belonged...

1998112 min6.3 / 10

A redemptive family drama about a struggling mother finding healing and belonging through reconnection with her roots and loved ones in the rural South.

A single mother plagued by alcohol and drug addictions is sent with her children from Chicago to her ancestral home in the Mississippi Delta, to live with her uncle and aunt for the summer.

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