The story flashes back 15 years to 1782, and Wilberforce recounts the events that led him to where he is now.
Although he initially resists any romantic overtures, she convinces him to relate the story of his career. It is here that Wilberforce is introduced to his future wife, Barbara Spooner. In 1797, William Wilberforce is severely ill and taking a recuperative holiday in Bath, Somerset, with his cousin, Henry Thornton. The film premièred on 16 September 2006 at the Toronto International Film Festival, followed by showings at the Heartland Film Festival, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, and the European Film Market, before opening in wide US release on 23 February 2007, which coincided with the 200th anniversary of the date the British parliament voted to ban the slave trade. Newton is portrayed as a major influence on Wilberforce and the abolition movement.
The film also recounts the experiences of John Newton as a crewman on a slave ship and subsequent religious conversion, which inspired his writing of the poem later used in the hymn. The title is a reference to the 1772 hymn " Amazing Grace". Amazing Grace is a 2006 British-American biographical drama film directed by Michael Apted, about the campaign against the slave trade in the British Empire, led by William Wilberforce, who was responsible for steering anti-slave trade legislation through the British parliament.
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