Movie Description:
RAIN is a story of a 19 year old AfricanAmerican girl who livesin the inner city projects with her younger sister, older brother, and their mother,Latisha. When Rain`s sister becomes involved with gang members, she is drugged at a party, and then becomes the subject of sexually explicitphotos that are used for blackmail. Raintries to intervene, butis unsuccessful,and ultimately witnesses her sister`s murder,thus becoming a threat to thegang leader. In order to protect Rain, her mother secretly contacts what turns out to beRain`s real mother--who happensto be white. A meeting isarranged, and Rain discovers her true roots: She is the secret child of a bi-racial unionand was put up for adoption. Rain`s biological motherreluctantly agrees to protect her, and Rain is placed in the home of her grandmother, a wealthy white woman. While their relationship is initiallyuneasy, it ultimately turns loving, and as a result of her grandmother`s assistance, Rain is placed in a private boarding school for the gifted, whichculminates in her emergence as a talented singer and musician.
