Hotel Pardon: world stories about reconciliation

After 'Hotel Prison' Jan De Cock travels to victims who were able to forgive 'Forgiveness is perhaps the greatest gift I have given myself. Mentally I have become more tolerant and gentler. And as I said, physically my ailments have disappeared. Don't push me into the role of victim. Ultimately it is not about what you experience, but about how you deal with it. I have been able to experience the miracle of forgiveness. For that reason alone my life has been worth living.' - Hank Heijn-Engel, widow of the murdered Gerrit Jan Heijn. Ten years after he stayed in prisons worldwide to feel the pulse of inmates, Jan De Cock takes up his backpack again. This time he meets victims and relatives of crimes who have managed to reconcile with the perpetrators. Jan speaks with parents of children killed by Anders Breivik or a young gunman at a Canadian school, with beautiful widows of 9/11 victims, with survivors of the Rwandan genocide, with Jewish and Palestinian parents who have been working together since the death of their children for a non-violent solution to the conflict. He searches in all directions, over coffee and vodka, over sandwiches and Christmas turkey, for the source from which they continue to live. He listens to their stories, their struggle with the suffering, and the insight that it is not 'an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth', but reconciliation that has liberating effects.