When, after cruel torture, Father Ferriera apostatizes to the disbelief of his Japanese converts, the play reaches a climax that is later capped only by the courage, nobility and love of the martyrs. Given shelter by a Christian farming community, everyone looks to him for help, including one of his chief persecutors. The central character of The Golden Country is Father Christopher Ferreira, a Portuguese Jesuit missionary. By this time, Japanese Christians were being cruelly persecuted by the government every Christian searched out was made to apostatize or suffer a slow, agonizing death.
The events described in this exciting and provocative three-act play, a companion piece to Endo's highly acclaimed novel Silence, take place in 1633, nearly a hundred years after Christianity was introduced into Japan.
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