In search of healing, reporter Thomas Bruckner embarks on a journey through the jungle of alternative medicine, remaining a questioning and doubting seeker of help. When Thomas Bruckner is diagnosed with a brain tumor, he decides not to undergo immediate surgery as recommended by doctors, but to first seek out alternative healers. In his journalistic quest for healing, he encounters a variety of people who claim to possess extraordinary abilities. His travels take him from a down-to-earth healer in his neighboring town to voodoo priests in Togo, miracle healers in the Philippines, shamans in Bulgaria, exorcists in Ghana, and the world-renowned medium, João de Deus, in Brazil. An equally captivating and unsettling world unfolds before him.