Sister Ioanna

There’s a monastery near Minsk. The monastery has a farmstead. An unusual lady lives here alongside those who are being saved by her quiet everyday holiness. The lady’s name is sister Ioanna. The film is inspired by her simple yet heroic life. The confession of sister Ioanna provides simple answers to crucial questions of faith and God, good and evil, sinfulness and forgiveness, of searching for the meaning of life. The conversation is entwined with the scenes from the life of the farmstead: human and animal souls being rescued daily…Afflicted, fallen, hopeless, addicted, sick, socially deprived people tell unembellished stories of starting their lives anew after hitting the bottom.