上世纪90年代，一个北非村庄里，八名法国西多会修士严守着基督教的信条，在修道院唱诗、礼拜、救死扶伤，与当地穆斯林村民和谐相处。然而，一次恐怖主义分子的袭击，打破了这份宁静。工地上，外籍工人惨遭屠戮，西多会开始遭到村民的怀疑和怨恨。此时，政府军决定对修道院加强护卫，然而以克里斯汀（朗贝尔•维尔森 Lambert Wilson 饰）为首的修士们最终拒绝了军队的要求。在圣诞节前夜里，一群原教旨主义者深夜来访，宣称对这场屠杀事件负责。在教堂门口，基督教修士与伊斯兰教门徒进行了教义上的短兵相接。修士们用勇气和教义捍卫了尊严，全身而退。然而，政府军随后杀到，不仅活捉了恐怖分子，而且用卑劣的死刑处死了头目。他们怀疑修士与恐怖分子私通，于是把矛头对准了这座教堂……
　　本片获得第63届戛纳电影节评审团大奖。

　　警官马库迪被一伙尼日利亚黑帮分子杀害，极度的悲痛驱使他的同事和好友希门尼斯（Aurélien Recoing 饰）、韦索（Jean-Pierre Martins 饰）、东尼（Antoine Oppenheim 饰）和奥萝尔（Claude Perron 饰）等人私自前往黑帮分子盘踞的废弃大厦，准备用自己的力量为马库迪报仇。然而悲伤和愤怒让他们失去了应有的判断力，一番枪战过后，这几名警察被黑帮抓获，并遭受难以想象的拷问与折磨。但是更恐怖的事情正等在前方，肃杀的黑夜弥漫着浓烈的死亡气息，一群嗜血如命的恐怖丧尸开始向这两伙人发动袭击。暂时逃生的他们发现，整个城市早已被丧尸所占领……
　　本片荣获2010年葡萄牙奇幻电影节最佳摄影和最佳剧本奖、2010年法国Gérardmer电影节科幻评委会奖。

　　The lines start with “O Somma Luce” which is the title of the film and also the 67th line of the 33rd canto in “Paradiso” of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” to the end of “Paradiso”.  The film is completed with music and lines instead of emotions and narrations.  This is a recent attempt to combine film with literature.
　　The film begins with a black screen and the music of Edgard Varese. The BGM is “Deserts” that was recorded in 1954. After some moments of darkness, the music ends and a middle-aged man sits on a hill, reciting something. He is Giorgio Passerone, an Italian literature professor, and he is reading out of the last part of ‘Paradiso’ of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Jean-Marie Straub expressed how he thinks of Dante through a subtle accent and dialect. The director who had encoded many great artists and musicians including Bach, complete the combination of Dante and Varese, which could seem strange. (Lim Kyung Yong)

　　The main hero of the film is an electrician with a far greater effect on the people around him than his job defines. He is the last link in a huge energetic system and he becomes the binding bridge between the geopolitical problems of post-soviet space and the common people.
　　The economic devastation of the country had an enormous impact on the industrial workers and yet despite the upheaval, these people did not seize to love and suffer, to have and be friends and to enjoy their lives… In particular our resilient electrician, who possesses a wonderful and open heart. He not only brings electric light (which is often out) to the lives of the inhabitants of this small city, but he also spreads the light of love, loyalty, life and mainly laughter.