Filmmaker Peter Mettler embarks on a mission that takes him around the world. He is determined to record the diverse modes of transcendence that people in different cultures adopt in order to live life to the fullest. As he traverses civilization and wilderness and encounters a range of lifestyles and ideas, the filmmaker's mind-expanding trip around the world grows into a poem of images and sounds, reflecting the fragmented but alluring worlds it attempts to capture.

Les recherches sur la transcendance du cinéaste Peter Mettler deviennent un voyage de trois heures où se succèdent pays et cultures, personnages, lieux et époques : évangélisation à l'aéroport de Toronto, démolition à Las Vegas, recherche de traces dans le désert du Nevada, chimie et vie de la rue en Suisse, cohabitation des dieux de la technologie en Inde.

Bir film yapımcısının aşkınlık konusundaki araştırması, insanları kültür ve zaman içinde bağlayan, ülkeler arası üç saatlik bir gezi haline gelir. Toronto’dan başlayarak, Las Vegas, İsviçre ve çağdaş Hindistan’ı içeren bir yolculuğa çıkarır.