Director: Joshua Weigel
Twenty-two families in a small East Texas town decided that no child should age out of foster care alone, and Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot, a 2024 drama from director Joshua Weigel, follows how that decision turned into a movement.
What is Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot about?
Nika King and Demetrius Grosse play Donna and Reverend W.C. Martin, whose small rural church becomes the starting point for an effort to adopt children the foster system had struggled to place. What begins with one family's decision spreads through their congregation until seventy-seven children across twenty-two households find permanent homes, each with its own set of challenges, adjustments, and setbacks. Elizabeth Mitchell plays a caseworker navigating the system alongside them, and the film traces the strain and reward of a small community taking on a problem far larger than itself.
Cast & crew
Nika King and Demetrius Grosse anchor the film as Donna and Reverend Martin, carrying the emotional weight of a couple whose private decision becomes a community-wide commitment. Elizabeth Mitchell plays a social worker whose perspective bridges the church and the foster system, while Diaana Babnicova plays one of the adopted children navigating a new home. Director Joshua Weigel also appears in the cast, alongside Carlos Aviles, Demián Castro, and Sarah Hudson in supporting roles.
Context & significance
Sound of Hope dramatizes a real chapter from Possum Trot, Texas, where a single church's adoption drive became one of the most documented grassroots foster-care efforts in the country. Director Joshua Weigel builds the film around the practical and emotional cost of that commitment rather than a simple feel-good arc, showing families navigating bureaucracy, trauma, and the everyday work of raising children who arrive with difficult histories. At 127 minutes, the film gives that process room to breathe rather than compressing it into a single triumphant moment.
Where & how to watch
Sound of Hope streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Farsi subtitles, part of a Farsi-first viewing experience built for the Iranian diaspora. A free account and login are all that is required to watch; the film's page itself can be viewed without signing in.