The film chronicles a period of time in Sieveking's life that includes his off-and-on relationship with his girlfriend as well as his travels to the United States, Holland and India.

After graduating from Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin, Sieveking, the film's director, learned the Transcendental Meditation technique and decided to document his personal experiences.

[2] Film locations include Berlin and Hannover; Germany, New York City, Fairfield, Iowa, Vlodrop, The Netherlands, Seelisberg, Switzerland, and northern India.

Sieveking attends a presentation on the construction of a campus in the Brahmasthan (center point) of India, designed for 8,000 pandits who will recite vedic chants.

Sieveking travels to New York to see Pohl and attend a David Lynch Foundation press conference featuring Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr.

Sieveking visits Michael Persinger, who assesses his brain wave activity during meditation and tells him about the dynamics of cults and how religious beliefs can impact important life decisions.

Sieveking also spends time with a former TM teacher, who is now a middle aged shaman who reminisces about her intimate personal relationship with the Maharishi as a young woman.

Sieveking travels to Colorado, USA, to speak with a publisher and TM apostate who donated large sums of money that the donor felt were not used wisely.

[9] and by James Adams of The Globe and Mail as "Frequently beautiful, always absorbing, sometimes hilarious, it deftly weaves Sieveking's various quests – for love, enlightenment, meaning, the truth – into a compelling whole."

[15] Daily Variety said that the "[t]ech package is first-rate, particularly the beautifully composed images of Adrian Stahli and pacey cutting of Martin Kayser-Landwehr.

"[5] Karin Badt, "associate professor of Cinema and Theater in Paris", describes it as a "successful documentary" with interviews that are “effective and fresh.” She writes the film has “major flaws” that include the filmmaker's preoccupation with his girlfriend over meditation, and his characterization "of TM as a nefarious cult".