The Jains are the world's strictest believers in non-violence. Jain monks will not bathe, for fear of killing the organisms that live on the body; some tie a cloth band across their mouths to protect flying insects from harm. In Ahmedabad, west India - where this film was shot - they run a hospital for animals: no matter how ill, or how great their suffering, the animals are not killed, but allowed to die naturally. In this film Everyman explores the paradoxes of this small but influential sect. The crew was given unique access to the animal hospitals, and was allowed to film the austere life of Jain monks and nuns - including their ritual hair-plucking. The result is a portrait of people who live on the frontiers of peace - far beyond what most would consider the reasonable limits of non-violen