In 1989 the people of Bougainville Island objected to the copper mining that had caused vast environmental damage to the island. They formed the Bougainville Revolutionary Army. The war lasted nine years and the people learned to adapt and survive despite the blockade by the government of Papua New Guinea.

When tourists journey to the furthermost reaches of the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea, is it the indigenous tribes people or the white visitors who are the cultural oddity? This film explores the difference (and the surprising similarities) that emerge when "civilized" and "primitive" people meet.

Violeta Ayala and Dan Fallshaw follow Fetim Sellami, a Saharawi refugee, to North Africa for a reunion with her mother. Mother and child were separated when Sellami was a toddler. But the UN-sponsored reunion reveals a secret which spirals the film into a dark world the filmmakers could never have imagined. The black Saharawis start talking about a forbidden subject: their enslavement.

In November of 1999, six months before Terence McKenna succumbed to brain cancer, the author visited him at his home for an in-depth interview. It covers Terence's final thoughts on entheogens, culture, the future, his own spiritual beliefs, and the grim problem of cancer, death and dying.