"Having broken away out of my self, I had been urgently trying a path and a meaning ." This phrase perfectly sums up the biographical project: re-constituting his life's incredible experience of Alejandro Jodorowsky. Alejandro Jodorowsky was born at Tocopilla, a town about border of the desert, where this film was shot. It was where he discovered the essentials of reality, since he underwent a miserable and alienated childhood as part of the family.