In a small remote village in Brazil lives a man known as 'John of God', who claims that he can heal the sick through the spirit entities that take over his body and conduct physical surgery without using anesthesia. He is believed to have cured countess people in the past. The personal documentary by a Japanese filmmaker Takeshi Inamura catches the profile of this mysterious man and people who visit him as he attempts to find the answer to his mind shaking questions; Is pain real? Do diseases really exist?