Animals such as sharks respond to its scent from a long way off. Family pedigrees and ties can be traced by its bonding power. It is responsible for why mothers remain instinctively attached to their babies in spite of the detachment of the placental cords!
Such is one of the tightly concealed secrets nursed by Constance Rivers (Lynn Whitfield- Emmy and NAACP Image Award winner; The Josephine Baker Story ) and ex-convict, Benjamin Sparks (Byron Minns; Undisputed) in the powerful, tear-jerking family drama “Somebody’s Child”.
Unbeknownst to either her son Douglas Rivers (Michael Jai White NAACP Image Award nominee; why did I get married too), or indeed Constance herself, that this Benjamin whom they had an unusual affinity for, nursed a secret.
While it is possible to sit down trying to analyse what these secrets were all day long, one thing that can’t be overlooked remains “blood-ties are powerful bonds to break”!
Call it maternal intuition or coincidental discovery; Constance eventually spilled the bean to her estranged son. This was shortly before losing the battle to kidney failure.
Such was the shocker that Douglas found hard to swallow on learning of his confession that, he and Benjamin were in fact fraternal twin brothers separated at birth 37 years ago. This award winning touching family drama showing on GMC tv tonight also features Nadine Ellis (“Let’s Stay Together””) and veteran Clifton Powell (Ray, “For Richer or Poorer”).
With powerful themes like the true power of faith, love and forgiveness "Somebody’s Child" will inspire anybody that feels second chances are beyond them; not to ever give up!
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