In the 1985 film director peter weir explores the sharp cultural conflicts between the old Amish society of western Pennsylvania and the modern American world of crime and violence. The main character, Philadelphia police detective John Book (played by Harrison Ford), is forced into hiding by a group of corrupt fellow officers looking for a little Amish boy (played by Lukas Haas). The boy es a brutal killing and identifies the policeman who did it from a photograph on the wall at headquarters. John Book and his hide in the house of the boys ....