War, poverty, and environmental collapse frame the question this film puts to a wide range of religious and political figures: what actually moves someone to act with compassion instead of violence? The Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami, musician Peter Gabriel, author Paulo Coelho, scholar Karen Armstrong, and Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev sit for individual interviews, each describing the belief or experience that shaped their sense of purpose. The film cuts between these accounts rather than building a single narrative, letting a Buddhist monk, a Christian archbishop, a Muslim head of state, and a handful of activists and public figures answer the same underlying question in their own terms. It first aired on Bill Moyers Journal in December 2008, produced by Peter Bisanz and Entropy Films, and went on to screen at festivals including the Global Peace Film Festival and DocuWest. The result is less an argument than a chorus, gathering people from very different traditions who arrive at similar conclusions about nonviolence and shared responsibility.