Summaries

James gives himself 12 months before he has 'a license to kill himself', he sets off to the amazon rainforest with hopes of finding a shaman who can save his life.

James is an all American boy whose promising life is brought to a halt by acute depression. Turning his back on the most progressive western treatments and medicines, James discovers ayahuasca in search of healing in the Peruvian jungle. Over the course of 10 months venturing from Shaman to Shaman, James finds friendship, answers and a kind of redemption hidden deep in the Peruvian amazon.

James is an all American boy who lives an all American life with a promising future ahead of him except for the fact that James has a disease, he suffers from clinical depression. Due to the fact that his own society could not answer his questions nor solve his problems James has no choice but to save his own life, one day while hospitalized in a mental institute James comes across an article in the national geographic about the shamans of Peru and there way of healing all kind of diseases including clinical depression through the use of Ayahuasca. He travels to the Amazon rain forest with one mission at hand, saving his life, James most abandon all he knows, adapted himself to a new couture which he practically knows nothing of while searching for a shaman who can help him save his life, along his journey James will need to overcome different challenges on his road towards finding redemption and at the same time face the consequences of his actions.

Details

Keywords
  • suicide
  • depression
  • shaman
  • ayahuasca
  • clinical depression
Genres
  • Adventure
  • Drama
  • Family
  • Documentary
Release date Aug 31, 2017
Countries of origin United States Germany Italy United Kingdom Israel
Language English Spanish
Filming locations USA
Production companies Appian Way Sumatra Films 2B Films

Box office

Gross US & Canada $17844
Opening weekend US & Canada $6799
Gross worldwide $17844

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 17m
Color Color
Aspect ratio

Synopsis

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