"Our God reigns, our God reigns!
Our God reigns, our God reigns!"
When Sophie's mother left the unsuspecting 7-year-old at a
boarding school in Uganda, the unforgiving stone walls
seemed to close in on her. One of only a few Moslem
children in a Catholic school, she struggled to find any
inkling of identity. Acceptance seemed unattainable as the
scrutinizing eyes and wounding words of her peers
threatened to break her feeble foundation. Ignorant to
practices and procedures, she constantly failed to meet the
expectations of her Catholic authorities. Forbidding hand
struck her for her sins she didn't understand and she was
forced to repent with a foreign tongue.
Sophie's pains and struggles scarred her from the inside
out and she began to dissect herself. Did she have any
convictions of her own or did she only hold to those of her
parents? Did she truly want to embrace Catholicism or did
she only with to obtain a sense of belonging? Culture,
religion, and humanity collide in this powerful story of
survival and self-discovery.