Based on the true story of the world's best-loved hymn and the slaves that inspired it.

In 1748, at the height of the slave trading era, slave trader John Newton sails to the coast of Nigeria, Africa. The peaceful and joyful life in the African village is rudely interrupted by vicious slave traders. Slaves are rounded up by force and trickery. Villages are raided and burned down. The captives are kept in dungeons chained like animals as John Newton fills his ship.

But as he leaves the Africa coast with a shipload of slaves, a violent storm brings John Newton to the point of death and causes him to re-evaluate his life. Although he is saved by two slaves, Newton attributes his miraculous escape to the amazing grace of God.

Despite John Newton's near death experience, he continues his slave trading. It takes an act of humanity from one of the slaves he considers animals to show him the true meaning of love. He finally renounces slave trading and decides to devote his life to religion. Back home in England in 1760, John Newton used the melody of a local Nigerian anthem sung in adversity by the captured slaves to compose the world's most famous hymn Amazing Grace, a fitting tribute to the slaves and the land that led him on the path to redemption.

Starring: Nick Moran, Scott Cleverdon, Mbong Odungide, Fred Amata
Running Time: 98 minutes