The Letters

Danghram, India, 2003. Father Benjamin Praagh (Rutger Hauer), a priest dispatched by the Vatican as postulator for Mother Teresa's cause for sainthood. Father Praagh arrives at the retirement quarters of Father Celeste van Exem (Max von Sydow), a preiest in his eighties who was friends with Mother Teresa and was her spiritual advisor. He shares with Father Praagh letters that she sent to him over a 40 year period, letters that reveal a spiritual darkness she suffered the better part of her adult life. This suffering began when she started her work with the poor in 1946.