The film focuses on a family of Indigenous healers and their ancestral relationship to the Amazon spirit world and curing traditions. A group of Westerners arrive looking for relief from a variety of traumas. The healers begin their work using song, ceremony and Ayahuasca, the most potent and transformative medicine of the Amazon. The Westerners learn that the medicine is used to heal history and the imagination - and humanity's broken relationship with nature itself.
While millions of people around the world have been forced into lockdown amid the coronavirus crisis, a family in the Ecuadorian Amazon has opted to move deeper into the relative safety of the jungle. As they reconnect with dormant ancestral knowledge their affinity with nature begins to flourish.
The Kichwa tribe in the Sarayaku region of the Ecuadorian Amazon believe in the Living Forest where humans, animals and plants live in harmony. They are fighting oil companies who want to exploit their ancestral land. A delegation of indigenous people are at the Paris COP21 climate conference to make sure their voices are heard. Can they win their battle?
The film explores the murky world of genetic sampling, engineering and ownership and its explicit links to a far from dormant colonialism. It inspires audiences to ask serious questions of the collective illusion we call progress.