Film short abstract:

A friend in Cairo gave Danish anthropologist Christian Suhr a good piece of advice: Stop focusing on the darkness in the world, look at the light instead. Suhr takes the advice and travels through Egypt to understand what light means to the people he meets along the way.

Film long abstract:

A fieldtrip into the mystical traditions of Islam exploring people's search for light at a time of darkness and political tension in post revolutionary Egypt. Sonia sees light streaming into her heart from a person’s finger. Aya is lifted into a luminous space in the midst of a ritual. Maher travels to the shrine of a holy man to find out if the light and love that people are referring to is real. Meanwhile the film crew, Muhammad, Amira, and Christian tries to find out how they can film these experiences of light and how there can be so much light and darkness in this world and inside themselves.