The refugee story is both as big as the world, with nation-state boundaries being drawn by international powers dividing families, and as small as the individual child, orphaned by violence and brought to safety by another child or relative. Their welcome is temporary.

"Suddenly you are ripped into the experience of being alive. Life is pain; life is suffering; life is horror, but by God you are alive and it is spectacular!" - Joseph Campbell

The photographer Chris Rainier is our guide, and an expert in indigenous and threatened cultures. He reminds us of "the conceit that we've evolved," thinking that we've written the one true story and others are somehow behind, or left out or wrong…

The political tension is like a wire running through the community that everyone seems adept at bending under and around, while earnestly praying that it doesn’t cut you off at the neck. Despite these challenges, a remarkable team of people are quietly going about the business of tackling AIDS.