The Glide Church, dubbed by some the ‘strangest Place in America’, is helping those most in need. Led by the larger-than-life Reverend Cecil Williams, his truly caring congregation deal with the grim reality for those on the streets. We follow Sunday Southworth, former crack addict and sex worker, now an AIDS out-reach worker, giving condoms and first aid to her old friends. While conservatives rejoice at the imposed limit of two years to find a job, many living in poverty say that Middle America has rejected them. A victim of incest, and a recovering drug addict, Jennifer recounts her extraordinary story - one which took her “to hell and back”. Her mother Diane has to look after eight children on $80 a week. The reformers may argue in favour of the ‘no excuses policy’, but it was Glide that ultimately saved Jennifer’s life. As Glide members sing ecstatic gospel together, they know full well that they “can only pick up so much”. If families do fail to meet the two year deadline then Clinton’s Welfare Reform may become a welfare disaster