In this documentary, commissioned by the Centre George Pompidou of France, filmmaker Philip Haas explores the religious and artistic activity of four of the world's indigenous peoples. In the first segment, he follows the work of aborigines as they enact a vision from the dreamtime in an earth-painting entitled "The Giant Woman Dreaming." In the next, he goes to another part of Australia to film the making of another aboriginal sacred exertion in the form of a tree-bark painting entitled "The Lightening Man." The third segment takes him to Madagascar to film the messenger sculptures which the local people put on the tombs of relatives, which are said to carry messages back and forth. It is entitled "Young Man's Dream." The last segment explores the significance of images painted in the house of a man living in Papua, New Guinea.
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