A Catholic Priest and an English teacher get stranded in a school in Kigali during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

In April 1994, after the airplane of the Hutu President of Rwanda is shot down, the Hutu militias slaughter the Tutsi population. In the Ecole Technique Officielle, the Catholic Priest Christopher (Sir John Hurt) and the idealistic English teacher Joe Connor (Hugh Dancy) lodge two thousand five hundred Rwandans refugees, under the protection of the Belgian U.N. force, and under siege by Hutu militia. When the Tutsi refugees are abandoned by the U.N., they are murdered by the extremist militia.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Based on a true story. An exhausted Catholic Priest (Sir John Hurt) and a young idealistic English teacher (Hugh Dancy) finds themselves caught in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. They must now choose whether to stay with the thousands of Tutsis about to be massacred or to flee for safety.—ortsa