Maya Angelou was assaulted by her mother’s boyfriend when she was seven. She told her brother, then her abuser was found beaten to death. So she became mute. She did not speak a word for five years, because she believed her words could kill a person.
First clip from ‘IF I GO WILL THEY MISS ME’, starring Danielle Brooks and J. Alphonse Nicholson.
The film follows a young boy reconnecting with his distant father after his recent incarceration, seeing him as a Greek god while mysterious visions follow him through his world.
In theaters on September 18.