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Directed by Jesse Moss
2014, USA, 100 min
It is impossible not to be moved by this riveting new documentary. The small community of Williston, North Dakota, became a boomtown during the economic downturn. Overnight, a massive migration of unemployed men seeking six-figure salaries storms the oil fields. A local pastor risks his private life and public standing to welcome the desperate down-and-out-of-towners by converting his church into a crash pad for the homeless. To him, the strangers are merely broken souls who’ve never known kindness. His congregation and local residents see the men differently—as dangerous ex-convicts and sexual predators. What truly drives this man of the cloth? Charity? Ministry? Ego? An inability to say no? A shocking revelation provides the answer and raises profound questions about human decency, the complexity and hypocrisy of faith, and what it is to build community.
