Southern Winds Film Festival 2008

In the United States, more than 20 million people are either deaf or hard-of-hearing.Justin Garrett‚Aos parents discovered that their son was profoundly deaf at age two. With that diagnosis, their idealistic dreams for him shattered. Not long after that, so did their family.As a young adult, Justin's audiologists recommended a cochlear implant. If the surgery went well, it would enable him to hear. An unsuccessful surgery, however, would mean a lifetime of irreversible deafness.In a miraculous turn of events, Justin was then approved for a bilateral (double) cochlear implant ‚Ai the first time in history a man from Oklahoma would undergo such a procedure. On March 13, 2006, this state-of-the-art surgery changed his life forever. Join him on this incredible journey as Justin seeks a new life in the hearing world.Witness the miracle.