synopsis

the film

We start our film in a Melbourne hospital room and end deep in the Brazilian Amazon following our two pioneering doctors as they introduce psilocybin to patients confronting the imminent end-of-life. Their patients, Flavia and Ros, reveal the radically transformative effect of the ‘treatment’ which opens them up to an expanded sense of reality but in doing so raises many questions. The psilocybin experience, the doctors find, cannot easily be corralled into a Western medical mindset. Knowing they have been working with medicines that indigenous cultures have long used, the Dr’s seek help elsewhere, which sets them on a path to connect with Indigenous knowledge holders such as Mayan Shaman Danil Pech Cetz and Yawanawa Shaman Muka Yawanawa to try and understand what may have been lost from our culture when we professionalised death and why that loss causes so many to die afraid, missing perhaps, an opportunity for revelation offered at the edge of human existence, it’s ending?