Java has more active volcanoes than any place on earth. To the Javanese they are both givers and takers of life. Meena pays his yearly homage by joining hundreds of thousands in the spectacular Hindu ceremony of Kesodo in the active crater of Mount Bromo so the gods will grant another year free of eruptions. Sometimes it works sometimes not. On neighbouring volcano Kawa Ijen the relationship between mountain and man is more tense. Muslim Dowee and his fellow miners daily dice with death from poisonous fumes or eruption to carve great slabs of yellow sulphur from the... live crater - to be used to refine sugar. John Paul Davidson uses spectacular aerial footage to interweave these Javanese lives and their mountains to powerful effect. [show more]
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