Like a modern-day Father Damian, dedicated social activist Yvonne Bezerra de Mello ministers to Brazil's social lepers, street children and youngsters from poverty-stricken homes in the
favelas (slums). German filmmaker Monika Treut's straightforward documentary follows the poised, handsome and apparently tireless de Mello as she explains her philosophy of working with damaged children, discusses the difficulty of finding donations and recruiting volunteers and takes to the mean streets in search of lost boys and girls whose lives she might be able to improve, if only incrementally. Treut's camera often lingers on the drawn, wary faces of children on the stree...
Released:
2001
Rated:
NR
Length:
90 mins