Stasis is ignorance and mobility is enlightenment in T.C. Johnstone's "Rising From Ashes," a documentary about the Rwandan Olympic cycling team which uses the wheel of the bicycle as a metaphor for the way we live, learn, grow and co-exist amidst individual and systemic horrors.

The team's coach, cycling legend Jonathan Boyer (referred to throughout as "Jock"), knows much about how to win a race before being called on to move to Rwanda