"Having broken away from my illusory self, I had been urgently searching a trail and a significance ." This phrase perfectly sums up the biographical job: reconstituting that the incredible experience of his own life of Alejandro Jodorowsky. Alejandro Jodorowsky was born in 1929 in Tocopilla, a town about border of this Chilean desert, where this film was shot. It was there where he detected that the fundamentals of reality, since he underwent a miserable and alienated childhood as a portion of a family.