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“My spiritual journey had taken me from the land of Ahuramazda to the realm of Allah. I came to believe there is only one God, the God of light, goodness and joy. A God who abides not on the mountains or in the oceans, nor the cities or the sanctuaries, but in the human souls who worship there”. Aryana Farshad.

“The material of myth is the material of our life, the material of our body, and the material of our environment. A living, vital mythology deals with these”. During the final years of his life, Joseph Campbell embarked on a lecture tour in which he drew together all that he had learned about what he called the “one great story” of humanity. These remarkable talks were filmed and are presented here in the order and manner in which Campbell himself intended: 1. Psyche and Symbol: the psychological impulse for and response to myth; 2. The Spirit Land: how myths awakened American Indians to the mystery of life; 3. On Being Human: the emergence of myth in early hunter-gatherer societies; 4. From Goddess to God: the gradual shift from the Goddess to male, warlike deities; 5. The Mystical Life: non-biblical mythic strains that helped shape the Western spirit.

“Myth comes from the same zone as dream... from the great biological ground whatever it may be. They are energies and they are matters of consciousness”.

The film deals with the (non)memory of WW2 concentration camps in Italy, in which numerous Slovenian civilians were detained. Three concentration camps were situated just across the Slovenian-Italian border, and this is also where a new concentration camp - a detention center for migrants - was being built at the time of making this film. Further, the film discusses the issue of statelessness - by comparing everyday situations endured by the Roma people in Rome, Italy, and by the Erased people in Slovenia - they too were, and still often are, detained in Italian and Slovenian detention centers.

The slow life of a little village near the city, and the city's fast pace. How can these two competing world views be reconciled' Is there a third way, a truly sustainable form of development? With the help of Luca Mercally, the filmmakers try to map out several possible pathways and a “solution” that could point us in the right direction.