This documentary presents the reality of a monk's life as it is lived at Mepkin Abbey, a Trappist monastery in South Carolina. Combines startling and beautiful images of the past to explore how a monk fits into our modern world.

Features Thomas Moore, author of Care the soul and Soul mates, in a wide ranging conversation with writer Valerie Andrews. Drawing insights from classical mythology, Renaissance philosophers and his experience as a therapist, Moore stresses that "care of the soul" is not about problem solving, but about giving ordinary life depth and value.