In the late 1940s British rule has come to an end, but the new Indian nation finds no peace with civil war breaks out among Hindus and Muslims, with particular intensity in Calcutta. Wracked by social problems, Calcutta buckles under the growing despair of the weak, the sick, the forgotten. But in the midst of all this misery stands one nun who is following her calling to help the poorest of the poor: Mother Teresa. This calling brings endless struggles, and Mother Teresa must challenge many authorities, including her own church

Mother Teresa died in 1997 and in 2016 she was canonized.