Running away from the police, Aden goes to the desert where he meets an uncivilized man who has a special link with Mother Earth. He ends up by convincing the hermit to come along with him into another desert: the big town.

Following Viva la Muerte and a controversial career in writing, Spanish anarchist Fernando Arrabal made his second foray into filmmaking with another surreal, psychedelic cult classic, a journey both unconventional and unconscious, physical and psychological. With Emmanuelle Riva!