Starting with no resources, Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, which has grown to a worldwide religious order caring for the destitute, the dying, and the victims of disease, famine and disaster. Yet her main work remains in the midst of the slums and dirt of the streets of Calcutta. The awards lavished on her, which she has accepted in name of the poor, include the Nobel Peace Prize and the Order of Merit. Navin Chawla a senior civil servant in India, sets out to capture the humanity and mystery of a figure whom he first met in 1975.