Far away from the big cities, in the vast expanse of the Northern Prairies, a withdrawn group of people is practicing its stubborn way of life. Few outsiders have ever had a chance to learn about the communal lifestyle of the Hutterites, direct descendants of radical Anabaptists from the days of the Reformation in Germany.

After hundreds of years of fierce persecution and having moved from country to country, the Hutterites have chosen to live apart from the modern world and have been able to preserve their spiritual heritage and strict way of life by rejecting modern media. Ιt took 6 long years of preparation before the filmmakers gained the trust of the community and were permitted to "take the picture." For the Hutterites, film and photography are worldly sins which foster vanity and "the lust of the eyes."