Surrealist Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky revisits his childhood.

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In childhood, Alejandro Jodorowsky, son of a rich ex-pat merchant in Chile, is pulled back and forth between his communist father, who is just as authoritative as the country’s dictatorial government, and a loved-starved mother whose breasts are as generous as they are suffocating. The boy must try to find the important lessons among his father’s toughness and his mother’s overbearing love. And this amidst a veritable court of miracles, in a city marked by conflict, where the war wounded mix with dwarves, clowns and transvestites who provide a sad circus atmosphere as he makes his way towards adulthood...

The world of surrealist director Alejandro Jodorowsky swings back and forth between realism and a dream-like setting full of childish fears – a phantasmagorical place rich in all kinds of colorful characters. A charming portrait of a difficult time, of a childhood where innocence has been ripped away, an unsweetened film with false analytical airs that reinterprets dreams to better understand where the director comes from.