Amish: A Secret Life
Miriam and Dave Lapp are a charming young couple with a brood of adorable children. Dave works in and part owns a construction company. They are also members of the 'Old Order' Amish community in Pennsylvania, whose church forbids all technology - though Dave gets lifts to work in a car and the couple, by allowing themselves to be filmed, risk the wrath of church elders.
Storyline
Miriam and Dave Lapp are a charming young couple with a brood of adorable children. Dave works in and part owns a construction company. They are also members of the 'Old Order' Amish community in Pennsylvania, whose church forbids all technology - though Dave gets lifts to work in a car and the couple, by allowing themselves to be filmed, risk the wrath of church elders.
Having outlined their traditional life-style to camera Miriam persuades several friends to be happily filmed and it becomes clear that the Lapps and other, younger Amish, believe that, having been rebaptized to allow a more open evangelical approach - risking excommunication thereby - they feel the need for a change in the community. The film ends as the family consolidates its dream to own their own farm.
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