In 5 minutes, the daily routines of 5 very different children tell a single human story.

The story of these five children from five places with five faiths is just under … five minutes long.

These children live in such different worlds.

But a new story emerges in this lovely video by The Mercadantes as the camera follows each child’s day and then weaves it all together. You can see the same events happen in each child’s life — told in the language of their place and faith.

Each child gets dressed and has breakfast.

Each one gets their shoes on.

Each child heads off to school, guided by a parent’s loving hand.

And later, each child reaches inward.

These basic things remind us not to let our differences make us forget one very important thing: how alike we really are.