- The everyday life of the Orthodox Christian community of Kananga, in Democratic Republic of Congo, a war-ridden country with thousands of victims and one of the most dangerous places in the world.
- Back in the 60's , a Greek Orthodox priest, f. Chrysostomos Papasarantopoulos, was invited by the locals, who heard rumors about a pious Greek priest, to Kananga, now the third largest city of the Democratic Republic of Congo, to help the people of the city and to do missionary work. Father Chrysostomos went to the country, which had just become independent and was known as Zaire, despite having no support from anyone, and created a very unusual christian mission. He died just 2 months later and f. Chariton Pnevmatikakis took his place. He expanded f. Chrysostomos's work, by building free schools and hospitals which still offer their services to everyone in need, regardless of their faith or belief. Father Chariton stayed in Kananga and kept growing this big humanitarian work, amidst multiple civil wars, famine, disease and lack of basic goods, such as clean water, food and medicine, till the end of his life, saving thousands of children and adults from the gold, diamond and coltan mines and offering shelter to children and families whose lives where destroyed by the war. The documentary examines the everyday life of the now sizable Orthodox Christian community, led by the late Orthodox Bishop of Pentapolis, f. Ignatios, and Bishop of Kinshasa, f. Nikiforos, almost 50 years later, and the joy and deep belief in a better future by living the teaching of the Gospel, despite the difficulties that all the locals have to face everyday. It was filmed during a fragile window of temporary peace, which lasted for just 2-3 months. The director, Pavlos Tripodakis, had to face many restrictions on his movements and the subjects he could discuss with the locals during filming, he was briefly incarcerated and he was forced to give parts of his material to the authorities and his camera assistant, Dimitris Papageorgiou, was saved from malaria by the nurses of this unusual mission.
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