The word "mandala" comes from Sanskrit. Loosely translated it means "circle", a mandala is far more than a simple shape. It represents wholeness, and can be seen as a model for the organizational structure of life itself. A cosmic diagram that reminds us of our relation to the infinite, the world that extends both beyond and within our bodies and minds.

Both Plato and Socrates affirm that, above all else, Pythagoras was famous for leaving behind him a way of life. Pythagoreans were interested especially in music and mathematics, two ways of making order out of chaos. Music is noise that makes sense, and mathematics provides rules for how the world works.

The film, based on a true story, centres around an American engineer whose son disappears in the Amazonian rain forest. When, at long last he finds him, he discovers that his son has become part of another world – a world which causes him to question his own.

The Druids were an ancient order of Celtic priests in the societies of Western Europe, Britain and Ireland. The Celtic Druids served their communities by combining the duties of seer, priest, poet, philosopher, historian, scholar, teacher, doctor, astronomer and astrologer. They were held in such respect that if they intervened between two armies they could stop the battle.