your friend go to bulgaria on a holiday and visit a monastery in the rhodopi mountain . so enamoured with the monastery quiet beauty and your friend film endless walk down corridor and close ups of candle burn in the sacristie . like most home video and there be no commentary and no editing and shot wobble and frequently out of focus and and low light cause grainy image . your friend video would be good than into great silence because no friend would make you sit through three hour of a bad holiday video . if people say that this movie provide a glimpse into a different lifestyle and do not believe them . if you want to understand monastic life and kneel for three hour on a stone floor instead and keep your eye close . this movie pretend to be insightful but it not . some may find god in silence but if you haven not find god yet and you be unlikely to find the supreme be sit comfortably in a cinema seat for three excruciatingly boring hour .