Set to the storytelling sounds of gospel and the blues, WADE IN THE WATER / SO GLAD I GOT A GOOD RELIGION, skips and jumps across a flurry of original and found footage, historical photographs, and personal narratives reflecting on the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, one of the most destructive river floods in the history of the United States, and the political and social responses that followed, including the Great Migration of African-Americans from the south to the urban north transforming the culture of northern cities, like Chicago, with deep, resonating force.