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This tragi-comedy depicts religious life in Nebojsa, a village in Slovakia near the Hungarian border. A young priest and his mother make masks with the face of Jesus Christ, believing that these will be the best “protection” against an “immigrant invasion”. In solemn procession members of their parish walk through the village wearing the masks, hoping that by doing so they will banish the “evil spirits” of Islam. Be they a balaclava-clad Jihadist or a Jesus Mask-Wearer guarding the Christian faith, religious fanatics reveal their faces everywhere...