A film about The Missionaries coming til north of Nigeria. Based on exceptional archiveThe story of European christian missionaries in Africa is not just about the past - on the contrary. A fascinating, historical film in two parallel tracks.

The film follows a young couple who, a hundred years ago, left the Danish countryside to what is today Northern Nigeria to be the first missionaries in the area. Their mission is to "build a bulwark" against Islam. They are well aware they will not come far by simply preaching the Bible. Having studied tropical medicine, they offer their medical practice solely as a package together with their religion. With only a year in Africa they manage to lay the foundation for a comprehensive system of Christian hospitals and schools, dominated the development of the society till today, where their community counts around two million people. From today's African church we hear a critique that the missionaries brought a white Christianity with little understanding of the African context. Through interviews with Danish missionaries and African witnesses, who experienced the introduction of Christianity, we gain insight to the part of the mission that was just as much about introducing a traditional European farmer lifestyle in Africa, with the individual at the center rather than the community. On the basis of a massive film archive shot by the missionaries themselves, the film displays the price the redeemed had to pay for the Christian lifestyle. The Redeemed is a complex story about good intentions, adventurousness and arrogance, then as today.