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The birth of Saint Paisios coincides with the uprooting of the Greeks from Cappadocia. His family, along with all the inhabitants of the Greek villages, takes the road of refuge to Greece. Their spiritual guide is the old man Arsenios.

Arsenios having fulfilled all his obligations to his family, he leaves for Mount Athos for a permanent stay. Under the guidance of Abbot Kallinikos the young novice becomes a petty monk and takes the name Paisios.

Father Paisios gives his struggle, as a monk now, in the Monastery of Filotheos, on Mount Athos. His mother is also fighting her own "battle" as she tries to reconcile her deep faith in God and her love for her son. In Father Paisios, the desire to go to the most deserted place on Mount Athos, Katounakia, and to practice there is growing. But a vision of the Virgin Mary leads him back to Konitsa, to the Stomio Monastery, to renovate the monastery burnt down by the Germans. So, in July 1958, he returned to Konitsa and without passing by his house he went directly to the monastery.

Little Arsenios chants his first prayers, grows up and, as a refugee child, encounters his first difficulties with his peers.

Prodromos faces great difficulties in keeping the villagers together. His family, along with 50 other families, finally arrive at the place where they will put down roots. In the land of Konitsa.

40 days after the settlement in the castle of Corfu, the old man Arsenios sleeps in the hospital of the city. His passing turns everything in the community upside down. Tensions, quarrels and disputes begin.