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A devoted activist filmmaker sets aside his camera to care for his wife through Alzheimer's, reflecting on their shared past of activism, art, and adventure while helping their autistic daughter cope with the changes.

God Comes as a Child awakens us to the inner strengths we must discover to face the inevitability of our own deaths. At the age of 60, poet Florence Perrella lost her life to Lou Gehrig's disease, a degenerative nerve disease formally known as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or ALS. Her son, (award-winning filmmaker Jeremiah Hayes), interweaves Florence's poems with scenes of her struggle in a Montreal Palliative Care Unit. The result is a testament of rare depth, and beauty. Like a dream, the film becomes a reflection of joy and pain, living and dying, all in the light of Florence's growing spirituality.