Sent by the Salvation Army to bear witness to the work they were doing in response to the Aids pandemic, Rhidian Brook, his wife and two children, follow a tril of devastation through communities still shattered and being broken by the disease. He met truck stop workers in Kenya, victims of rape in Rwanda, child-headed families in Soweto, children of prostitutes in India. A remarkable journey amongst the infected and the affected through a world that, despite seeming on the brink of collapse, is bein held together, not by power, politics, guns and money, but by small acts of kindness from people living with more hope than chance of surviving AIDS and HIV.

Rhidian Brook is an award-winning novelist, (Somerset Maughan Award, Betty Trask Award), author of the screenplay for'Mr Harvey Lights A Candle' with Timothy Spall, screen and short story writer. He has written articles on faith, travel, social issues and education for newspapers including The Observer, The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph. He is a regular contributor to Radio 4's'Thought for the Day' programme, and his book, The House at Kreis Pinneberg, will be published by Penguin in 2012. Rhidian Brook lives in London.