Desc: Mother Country: Directed by Maria Breaux. With Sebastian Galasso, Cindy Pickett, Thea Gill, Ernest Waddell. MOTHER COUNTRY follows a young African-American man, Dwight Porter, an unwilling criminal on the run. After committing murder, Dwight grows remorseful and leaves his environment with a goal: walk across the United States in search of a former teacher, the one person who believed in him.