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.

米高任特种部队时，曾参与拯救波斯尼恐怖分子挟持的人质，可惜任务失败人质被杀，米高侥幸逃脱。退役后米高任职私人保镖，其老板在机场为枪手伏击身亡，其妻在机场逃过大难后，回到家中再次受击，米高因而被革职，米高追查下，发现凶手竟是两年前恐怖分子首领，其时米高的行动受阻，而一起查案的探员的女儿亦被绑架，令案情更加复杂......