


In 2003, 23 years later, Darrin has grown up to become a successful advertising executive in New York City with a bad habit of lying MaryAnn is later revealed to have died in a hit-and-run accident when he was a teenager. MaryAnn chooses the former, and she and Darrin are last seen on a bus saying goodbye to their beloved Aunt Sally ( Ann Nesby), as they sadly wave to each other. After being confronted about this by the self-righteous Paulina Pritchett ( LaTanya Richardson), MaryAnn is forced to choose between singing professionally or remaining in the choir. In 1980, a young boy named Darrin Hill ( Cuba Gooding Jr.) and his mother, MaryAnn ( Faith Evans), are run out of their hometown of Monte Carlo, Georgia after MaryAnn is soon discovered to be singing secular R&B music while also singing in their church's choir.
