2006 Best Documentary Genie award winner and 2004 Toronto International Film Festival Best Canadian Feature Film - Special Jury Citation winner. Visiting the 'Ground Zeros' of the planet, award-winning filmmaker Velcrow Ripper asks if it's possible to find hope in the darkest moments of human history. Staring directly into the face of war, tragedy and instability, Ripper travels to the minefields of Cambodia; war-torn Afghanistan; the toxic wasteland of Bhopal; post-9/11 New York; Bosnia; Hiroshima, Israel and Palestine. This unflinching documentary captures his five-year odyssey to discover if humanity can transform the 'scared' into the 'sacred'.