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Love that overcomes religious barriers

It is the most controversial, heart wrenching story ever told. Max the main actor is a young university graduate doing business for his girlfriend’s father, a business tycoon. Max finds himself in a mishap in the Coast during a business trip. Of all the people that could help him, Yusuf an under privileged stranger with a sick son saves Max and nurses him until he recovers. Max on the other hand cannot get Yusuf and his family out of his mind when he returns to Nairobi. So great is his compulsion to help Yusuf’s family that he dares risk losing his gorgeous well to do girlfriend, best-friend, job and his family all for the sake of Christ.

‘The Distant Boat’ is a movie like no other. Apart from the local phenomenal actors, remarkable aesthetics and locally enriched sound tracks, it has quite a unique attribute. It is not just a movie to sit back and enjoy; in addition to this, its main purpose is to take the church back to the drawing board-the church’s role in The Great Commission.

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