Everyman

In the corner of Owino Market, Kampala, a small boy of six, offers a single cigarette for sale. He is dressed in a torn singlet and covered in sores. At night he sleeps under buses and sniffs petrol fumes to keep off the cold and mosquitoes. He is one of thousands of children brutally orphaned by Idi Amin who now must make a life and a future out of thieving and blackmail, corruption and bribery. In the last month, Everyman has been to Uganda to explore the lives of this lost generation' and to meet the one man in Kampala prepared to react to their plight.

On 3 January 1956, five American missionaries flew out over the Ecuadorian jungle on the last stage of ' Operation Auca ' - the epic attempt to evangelise the Auca Indians, regarded as the most ferocious tribe in the Amazon. Within six days all five had been speared to death. Two years later the widow of one of the missionaries and the sister of another decided to make their own attempt to reach the Aucas. Everyman goes back to the scene of the killings; talks to the missionary women, and to the Auca killers themselves. This first of two films examines the impact of Christianity on a tribe that believed all outsiders were cannibals.