亨利（考特尼·万斯 Courtney B. Vance 饰）是小镇上受人敬仰的牧师，他的妻子茱莉亚（惠特尼·休斯顿 Whitney Houston 饰）则是教会唱诗班的主唱，这对璧人在旁人眼中是一对天衣无缝的伉俪，可是实际上，他们要面临的问题远比一般人所设想的多得多。 作为一名牧师，亨利要做的事情并非只有传教那么简单，他还要负责处理教会中发生了许多棘手的意外，这令亨利感到疲惫不堪，与此同时，对于家庭的疏忽让他和茱莉亚之间的感情也亮起了红灯。某日，走投无路的亨利向上帝祈祷，希望主能够帮他度过难关，谁知道上帝真的实现了他的愿望，派来一位名叫杜德利（丹泽尔·华盛顿 Denzel Washington 饰）的天使来到了亨利的身边。
电影讲述了上世纪九十年代的哈萨克小镇，四个少年各自的生命之路。扎哈拉斯正在备受父亲的煎熬，后者因曾是一个诈骗犯而找不到工作，为了帮助父亲，他不得不在玉米加工厂打工。巴拉潘有一把好嗓子，能够将“万福玛丽亚”唱的娓娓动听，然而校园生活教会他的是使用自己的拳头而不是声音。扎哈巴则在流浪在村子里的垃圾堆中，寻找可以卖的废金属，他与其他三名同龄离家出走的男孩子睡在废弃的隧道中。阿斯兰正在为医药学努力，然而当他说服自己的女朋友堕胎之后，他的人格发生了彻底的改变。 A godforsaken Kazakh village in the mid-1990s where four youths are trying to find their way in life. Zharas suffers because his father, an ex-con, cannot find a job. To help make ends meet the boy takes on casual work at a corn merchant’s. Balapan can sing ‘Ave Maria’ as clear as a bell but his schoolmates provoke him into using his fists rather than his voice. Zhaba roams about the village ruins looking for waste metal he can sell. He comes across three bedraggled boys of his own age who have run away from a nearby home and are sleeping in a derelict tunnel. Aslan is about to take up studies in medicine but, after having persuaded his girlfriend to have an abortion, he undergoes a complete change in personality. After scoring a hit with his first film Harmony Lessons, which screened in Competition at the Berlinale in 2013, Emir Baigazin’s new work The Wounded Angel describes the mood of teenagers growing up in a time of great upheaval. The film marks the second part of a visually stunning trilogy about young people and their complex relationships in a world without a moral yardstick. berlinale 2016
An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place. Enter Dudley, an angel sent to help him. Dudley does help everyone he meets, but not necessarily in the way they would have preferred. With the exception of Henry, everyone loves him, but Henry begins to believe that Dudley is there to replace him, both at work and in his family's affections, as Christmas approaches.
