Purchase of God is the story of Christine Bell, a woman who, after spending 20 years of her life caring for invalid parents, suddenly finds herself alone with no past and no future.

She falls for a young med student, giving him her inheritance for tuition, but on the eve of their wedding discovers him with another woman. In a fit of anger and frustration, she drives all night, desperate to put distance between herself and her newfound problems.

The next morning, she awakens in her car in the lot of a smalltown church, surrounded by a cluster of churchgoers. She's quickly bombarded by their generosity with offers of a job, a part in the church musical, and a room at the local boarding house. With her car in disrepair and no one to call, Christine exchanges her road-weary cynicism for a few days of survival in Cedar Hill, Georgia.

How the experience will effect her is anybody's guess.

Lee Davis:

      "I always feel cheated whenever a reprinted screenplay turns out to be a simple transcription of the finished film and not the original text as envisioned by the author. Therefore the film adaptation of Purchase of God that follows includes dialog, scenes and whole characters that, while photographed, never made it to the final cut. The idea is allow the curious reader a better understanding of the slightly fuller universe the screenwriter intended to portray on the screen. Some items had to be trimmed-- the opening exposition with Christine’s Mom, for example, that ran too long. Other changes were made during photography -- the car chase was re-configured once we learned that CSX had scheduled six different trains to pass the same country railroad crossing the same day, allowing us multiple opportunities to stage our ‘near miss’ stunt.
      "Before it was a stage play and before it was a movie, the story of Christine Bell’s stay in Cedar Hill, Georgia was born on the written page. And on the page, in personal images created in the minds of its readers, perhaps it lives its most abundant life.

'In the beginning was the word...'"