- I see here a gathering of young people.
Here, a young man.
♪ Was to meet his love. ♪
Hello there.
- Pleased to meet you, Reverend.
Emma Russell. - Nice to meet you too.
What you got?
♪ Was a great day in his life. ♪
♪ 'Cause the songs that play were singing. ♪
- [Crew] More (indistinct), okay.
(indistinct chatter among crew)
- Left, right there. - We'll save that
for the reverse walk. - Yeah.
- That bares His sacred name. - Amen.
♪ Are you washed ♪
♪ Are you washed in the blood ♪
- That bares His sacred name.
♪ Are you washed ♪
♪ Are you washed in the blood, ♪
♪ In the blood, in the soul ♪
♪ Cleansed in blood of the lamb. ♪
(director clapping)
No, Carl's working.
Making deliveries. - Deliveries, for who?
- Hell if I know, but he's bringing home money
that I don't gotta ask you for.
- That son of a bitch. - No, he's working.
Making deliveries. - Deliveries for who?
Hell if I know, but he's bringing home money
that I don't gotta ask you for.
- Start in.
And then 25.
And then 21, yeah.
- Fuck is going on out here?
- Couldn't sleep.
- I think blase would have sucked out
all the sort of tension from the scene.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And it wouldn't be true, where you're coming from.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
(machine beeping)
- The little thing? - Yeah.
If you zoom closer to there.
What did man do unto me?
Mama, I didn't have the best day today.
(melancholic music)
- [Narrator] No matter what the weather was,
Lenora would visit her mother's grave after school.
Some days she would even read the Bible out loud
and imagine her mother was listening.
Keep coming, keep coming, stop.
(melancholic music)
- [Narrator] In 1957 Arvin Eugene Russell
was nine years old.
- His father's solid. - Yeah.
It's like almost, it's a lot of,
you wanna make sure he gets movement.
He never should stand still.
This is a different thing too.
Like your dad is home now. - Yeah.
- Mark. - Scene mark.
- Coming out back with me today, boy?
- [Narrator] Three days before,
he'd come home with another black eye.
- You're coming out back with me today, boy.
♪ Always held me up and on a cloudy day ♪
- [Narrator] The girl's family had burned up
in a house fire, leaving the poor thing all alone.
♪ Oh land of a cloud, let's stay ♪