Salamanca

For generations the Salamanca community of Mennonites has been living in the same modest and rigidly organized way Modernday scenes are accompanied by a voiceover narrating a mans recollections of his youth As soon as I close my eyes he explains I go back to the past to the moment when I made the choice that shaped my entire life Speaking in the Plautdietsch language he talks calmly of the strong curiosity he felt as a young boy about the world beyond Salamanca and the Mennonite faith a curiosity for which he paid dearly