The Lacandones lived for centuries hidden in the immense rain-forest of southern Mexico. A people of many myths, speaking an ancient Mayan language they had a unique knowledge of the forest, its plants and its animals. Recently they have been exposed to evangelical religion and modernizing influences, which has resulted in the loss of cultural knowledge from one generation to the next. Bor, an illegal immigrant in the United States returns to his Lacandones family in search of his identity. Knowing little about his past he meets one of the last remaining shamans who provides him with an alternate sense of the world and a spiritual experience. Meanwhile, the ravages of modernity on an ancient culture have left their scars on his immediate family.