Simone

Against the backdrop of worldwide, unexplainable natural disasters, Dr. Virginia Marilyn Edwards (Emmy Award-winner Kerry Washington) seeks out Agent Scott Thomas (Emmy Award-winner Laurence Fishburne) at a secretive government headquarters. Virginia claims these events are signs, and unless Agent Thomas helps her, she believes things will only get worse. Her desperation is dialed up higher with a shocking proclamation as she stands before him pregnant, weak, and weary: “Agent Thomas,” she says, “I believe I am Mary.”

On the day that Julius Gaius Caesar crossed the Rubicon to end the Roman republic, the witch women of the Ose tribe had a vision of the future, and what they saw terrified them. To protect the world, they allied with the new dictator of Rome. In return for destroying his enemies and securing his empire, he would allow a single djambe to serve at his side, to use her magic to guard against the encroaching chaos they knew would one day come.

My name is Nelly and I belong to one of the oldest cults in the world, The Cult of Mothers. For years, the Masters have been kidnapping witches, stealing our rituals, and forcing us to be their slaves. They took our spirits, our very ancestors, and turned them into shadow slaves. Now, the very spirits that helped us are out to destroy us. Yet, we Mothers are going to keep fighting. We will fight tooth and nail to lead the shadows back into the light.