The film is loosely based on the eassay The Death of the Author by Roland Barthes, in which he states that the author as an individual is inconsequential to the understanding of a work. "The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from innumerable centres of culture....a text's unity lies not in its origin, but in it…

Since ancient times, a tribe on the African continent has been prophesying that a white boy will arrive to be their god: the Son of the Moon. David, a 12-year-old orphan who lives in Europe, learns about the prophecy and believes that he is the chosen child and that destiny must be fulfilled at any cost. Before David c…