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Raymond Roy is a 64yearold idealist an energetic social activist ready to give everything he has to those living on the edge the alienated impoverished and exploited members of society Raymond is also a priest doing what he has wanted to do ever since he was a teenager Filmmaker Serge Giguère paints an intimate portrait of a man who has spent 30 years fighting for an alternative vision of life in his community The film is a blend of cinema vérité and social history that provides a view of the man and his work from without and within from the poetry of his personal diary laced with doubts and selfcriticism to the many achievements of the community groups he helped Filming over several years Giguère gives us a sense of the changes in values and attitudes of those who run our society along with the role of the community groups who provide solutions inspiration and a sense of renewal