Joy and Hopeton
1973. Joy is in Birmingham, married with two kids. She has felt at home within the Baptist church community but now there is a threat to this new-found security. By Rex Obano
It is 1973 and Joy, Gloria’s daughter, is in Birmingham, married to childhood friend Hopeton. They are fully immersed in their Baptist church community with their two young children, Gloria and Badrick. Just as things seem to have settled, doubts creep in that threaten to change everything. By Rex Obano.
Joy ….. Sapphire Joy
Hopeton ….. Solomon Israel
Minister Gayle ….. Karl Collins
Clement de Soto ….. Burt Caesar
Philomena ….. Susan Lawson-Reynolds
John Nathan ….. Will Kirk
Congregation members ….. Lloyd Thomas and Janice Acquah
Produced by Pat Cumper
Directed by Anastasia Osei-Kuffour
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We began following the lives of Hope James, Eunice Faith Isaac and Gloria de Soto in the UK in 1946. Two generations of three families, bound together by the fate of one baby lost and found on Tilbury Docks in 1946, are taking their place in the rapidly changing Britain of the 1970s. Joy (formerly 'Baby Eunice') was the baby lost at Tilbury Docks in 1946 and found by Gloria and Clement who she believes are her parents. Grown up and settled with her own family now, Joy embraces a sense of home when previously she couldn’t shake the feeling of being lost.
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