By April MacIntyre Dec 6, 2009, 20:52 GMT
Lifetime is set to air "Amish Grace" - a tale based a true story of one woman’s journey of healing following the tragic schoolhouse shooting in a Pennsylvania Amish Community - in 2010
Kimberly Williams-Paisley has been cast to star as Ida Graber in the Lifetime Movie Network Original Movie.
The film follows the aftermath of the schoolhouse shooting in the Amish community of Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania.
Set to begin production in December, the film will examine a mother’s (Williams-Paisley) personal journey as she copes with the tragic loss of her daughter during the shooting.
Matt Letscher will portray her husband, Gideon Graber.
This film is based on the book, Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy, will premiere in spring 2010 on Lifetime Movie Network.
The premise:
The peaceful Amish community of Nickel Mines was forever changed when a gunman senselessly took the lives of five girls in a schoolhouse shooting before taking his own life.
What transpires afterwards takes Nickel Mines by storm when the media descends on the town and criticizes its Amish leaders for their notion of unconditional forgiveness of the shooter and his widow, Amy Roberts. Devastated by her daughter’s death and tempted to leave the only life she’s ever known, Ida Graber (Williams-Paisley), finds herself struggling with her community’s teaching of the transcending power of forgiveness. But, through her anguish and pain, she slowly begins a personal journey towards accepting the heart-wrenching tragedy of losing a child.
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