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This documentary offers a chance to experience a typical day for the sisters of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Michel de Kergonan in Plouharnel. Today, there are 34 nuns living in this abbey in Morbihan. Here, work is received in obedience. It is the Mother Abbess who distributes the specific tasks to the sisters. But the entire community participates in the daily tasks of the monastery, punctuated by seven offices in Latin. The nuns live here almost self-sufficiently. Thanks to the vegetable garden, the community supplies itself with fruit and vegetables. Craft work and the shop supplement their income, 50% of which comes from the pensions of the elders. But their speciality is organic farming. The nuns' two main specialities: a complete range of organic fertilizers and the breeding of calves, also organic. A rarity in French monasticism! This film follows the nuns of Saint-Michel de Kergonan hour by hour, in their daily tasks, interspersed with impressions of the nuns and interviews with farmers and villagers, testifying to their integration. Director: Lizette Lemoine and Aubin Hellot Type: documentary Production: 5ème Planète Co-production: KTO Co-production: 5 continents Director: François Lecauchois and Stéphane Muller Type: documentary Production: 5ème Planète