Sara is a member of the Jehovah's Witnesses. She spends most of her spare time accompanying her parents, going from door to door with a copy of the "Watchtower" in her hand, trying to draw people into conversations about faith and religion. The Jehovah's Witnesses are missionaries and Sara is proud of this. Judgement Day and Salvation are fixed stars in her worldview. Sara knows exactly what she wants--and what she doesn't want. But, when she falls in love with Teis, her rock solid take on life begins to crumble. Teis is not a Jehovah's Witness--nor does it look as though he will allow himself to be baptized, and so Sara faces some difficult decisions. Their secret trysts mean that she has less time for missionary work and this puts Sara in a terrible predicament. It is not possible for her to lie to her parents; moreover, honoring them unconditionally, as her faith demands, is becoming increasingly difficult. Through Teis, she is able to see for the first time in her life, how others perceive the Jehovah's Witnesses. Sara's perception of the world and her image of her parents are now called into question as Sara finds herself torn between her faith and her love.
The caption above explains the review of the movie about the difficult experience of anyone growing up in a family who professes to be a devout Jehovah's Witnesses. Even if you have not lived with parents who have raised you as one of the Jehovah's Witnesses after you have joined the Jehovah's Witnesses you might feel that your family is sending you away. Experience siblings being torn away from each other and children angry at their own parents begging them to allow them to stay with them because the children feel they have not been good. It's not a good feeling at all.
While you may not understand everything that is going on in the Jehovah's Witnesses worlds apart from the average world it might be an excellent study to watch the move, Worlds Apart -In Danish entitled To Verdener.
From a former Jah's Witnesses himself, I Van Stone. Enjoy.
