Beyond Right & Wrong: Stories of Justice and Forgiveness(2012)
What are People Really Capable Of?
A survivor of the Rwandan Genocide struggles to forgive the man who killed her children. A victim’s daughter strikes up an unusual friendship with the ex-IRA bomber who killed her father. And two men—one Israeli, one Palestinian—form a bond after tragedies claim their daughters.
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