Otar Iosseliani recounts the lives of the monks of the Sant'Antimo abbey in Castelnuovo dell'abate, near Montalcino near Siena in Tuscany Father André Forest, Father Etienne Roze, Father Olivier Nelle, Brother Emmanuel Roze, Brother Jean-Charles Leroy. The film begins with this sentence: "If we want to know what value are the goods of the Earth, consider them the bed of death: ...
