“They say my country is so beautiful that although God may wander the world during the day He returns at night to sleep in Rwanda.” - Rwandan proverb
This we are told in writing, just before the ending credits roll over the screen in the documentary God sleeps in Rwanda. Before seeing this film, and with little knowledge of Rwanda, and where this knowledge one possess concerns one of the most terrible incidents in the world ever, the Rwandan genocide in 1994, one might come to believe that the title is to be understood as something like: "in this country God is not looking, he's not paying attention to the wrongdoings that happens, as he's sleeping. But as the proverb inclines this documentary tells a different story: about how one can find something beautiful in life, even after the worst possible has happened.
