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- The true story of the nineteenth century priest who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai, to console and care for the lepers.
- Director's Cut. Re-released. SIMPLE COURAGE tells the tragic story of Hawaii's leprosy epidemic (1865-1965) and the compassionate intervention of Belgium priest Father Damien de Veuster. The film's epilogue draws some parallels with how we are dealing with the AIDS epidemic. Simple Courage documents the treatment of leprosy victims in Hawaii in the 19th and early 20th century. More than 8,000 sufferers, mostly native, were banished to an isolated peninsula and practically abandoned. One man, however, in a simple act of courage, took it upon himself to bring comfort to these hopeless people. He was Father Damien, a Catholic missionary from Belgium, who spent sixteen years caring for the "untouchables" until he himself succumbed to the disease. He transformed their prison into a place of decency and respect. Using archival footage and moving interviews with survivors from the '30s and '40s, Simple Courage shows the emotional pain of banishment from their ancestral homes added to the ravages of the disease.
- The story of a group of children taken from their families to live as lepers and outcasts on the Island of Molokai but over time make it their own form of heaven.
- A story of the friendship between Olivia, who was exiled to Molokai in 1934 with Hansen's disease (leprosy), and Tim, a young man with AIDS.