Overview

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Twenty-first century teen, Emma Bryant, is being swallowed up by the growing darkness in her culture. At school, her classmates are either apathetic or belligerent but her teachers are too stressed to care. She is underpaid and overworked by her ill-tempered employer, and her abusive step-dad is making her home life unbearable. Social life offers relief from her unrelenting hardships but Emma finds herself uncomfortable with some of the choices her peers are making. When circumstances force Emma to move in with her Grandpa Roy, she discovers an old diary at his house. Each time she reads it, she enters into a time altogether different than her own.

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The year is 1957. Family life for teen Evelyn Blakely takes a turn for the worse when her sister, Mary, and her Elvis Presley look-alike boyfriend, Roy, take offense at Evelyn’s piety and begin taunting her at every turn. Their bullying culminates in the stealing of her very private diary.

Back to the future, Nicole’s daughter, Emma Bryant, discovers more than just her mother’s past in the pages of Evelyn’s diary. She ascertains that something was present in the 1950s that is conspicuously missing in the twenty-first century, namely faith in God. Emma wonders whether she’s landed on the very reason for the despair engulfing her country.

Having been led to Christ through Evelyn’s diary in the 1960s, Grandpa Roy takes Emma to church. The sermon pricks her conscience. Her fearful proclivities ignited, Emma endeavors through good works to save herself from eternal damnation. After trying and failing, she throws herself headlong into the same disastrous mistakes her mother made at her age.

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Just when Emma’s at her lowest, tragedy strikes. What follows is a beauty from ashes story. Woven through two eras, the gospel message finally makes it’s way from Emma’s head to her heart, leading her at last into the arms of her Savior.

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