Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Argentine cardinal who became the first South American pope in 2013, is the subject of this DW report, originally produced around his 85th birthday in December 2021. The film traces his choice of the name Francis, a nod to St Francis of Assisi, and his stated aim of building a "poor church for the poor." It follows his attempts to reform the Vatican bureaucracy and papal finances, his advocacy for climate protection and inter-religious dialogue, and the abuse scandals and internal resistance that limited what he could actually change. Priests who advised him, clergy who criticized his initiatives, and Catholic laypeople who hoped for a more just church all appear on camera, offering competing pictures of the same pontificate. Rather than a straight biography, the film takes stock of a papacy still in progress, weighing declared intentions against results. It was rebroadcast by DW after his death as a record of what he set out to do and where he fell short.