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Working from different
vantage points, the angels help rehabilitate Julia Fitzgerald, a drug
addict who is down and out. Monica, posing as a street walker,
persuades the police to round up the disheveled Julia with the other
ladies. In jail, she is encouraged by the angel to enter the New
Spring Halfway House administered by Tess. Though Julia wants to leave
the program, her parole officer, Andrew advises her doing so will land
her back behind bars since her arrest was a parole violation. Plagued
by a past action she committed, the woman deserts the halfway house to
rejoin her friend, Fran on the streets. But when she misses the
rendezvous, Monica persuades Julia to return to New Spring. As she
makes steady progress in rehab, the woman decides to make amends with
people she has offended. First on the list is Chuck, the bartender and
former employer she stole from. He wants to have Julia arrested, but
Andrew convinces the man to let her pay him back. She returns to the
alley where she has jewelry hidden in a secret place. But after
pawning it, Julia encounters Fran, who is being confronted by her
pimp, Jimmy. Returning to the halfway house, she admits giving Jimmy
most of the money to help Fran but saving enough for herself to get
high. Tess leaves to confront the unscrupulous man. Afterwards, Julia
panics because she has lost a necklace with great sentimental value--a
memento of the son she gave up to his father for fifty dollars. A
fatigued Tess returns after recovering the money, teaching Jimmy a
lesson, paying back Chuck, and finding Julia's locket. Revealing that
she and Tess are angels, Monica encourages Julia to press on despite
setbacks because God will always be there to pick her up. Days later,
after Fran has entered rehabilitation herself, the angels send Julia
to Chicory Creek, Kentucky where she is to find a man with a 1949
burgundy Cadillac. That man turns out to be Erasmus Jones, and Julia
is astonished to learn his extended family is Promised Land's Greene
family. When they return to town for Thanksgiving, the prodigal mother
will be reunited with her son... Nathaniel Greene.
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