Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact. In the 17th century, two Jesuit priests travel to Japan to find their mentor, Father Ferreira, who disappeared while trying to spread the teachings of Catholicism. At the end of a dangerous journey, they discover a country where Christianity is decreed illegal and its faithful persecuted. They will have to go underground on a perilous quest that will confront their faith with the worst trials.
Two priests search for their mentor in Japan, a mysterious country, a place where both their religion and their very presence are forbidden.
Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.
In the 17th century, two Jesuit priests travel to Japan to find their mentor, Father Ferreira, who disappeared while trying to spread the teachings of Catholicism. At the end of a dangerous journey, they discover a country where Christianity is decreed illegal and its faithful persecuted. They will have to go underground on a perilous quest that will confront their faith with the worst trials.