Last summer the fate of refugees has overwhelmed the whole of Europe and countless intellectuals and politicians declared their solidarity with the suffering of people from the Middle East and Africa. In "Compassion. The History of the Machine Gun", Rau and his team journey to the political hot spots of our time. The semi-documentary doublemonologue, based on interviews with NGO workers, clerics and war victims, deliberately ventures into contradictory terrain: how do we endure the misery of others and why do we watch it?
