Subtitled A MODERN CANNIBAL TALE, this film presents the strange but true story of Tobias Schneebaum, a Jewish abstract expressionist painter from New York who disappeared in the Amazon rainforest in 1955. Presumed dead, Schneebaum reemerged a year later covered in body paint, having lived among the Amarakaire Indians. Much later, Schneebaum wrote of his adventures in a memoir, Keep the River on Your Right (1969). The book details the artist's homosexual liaisons among the Amarakaire, as well as his participation in a single act of cannibalism. After Peru, Schneebaum went on to become a noted cultural anthropologist and explorer of erotic folkways in remote communities. Directors David and Laurie Shapiro join Schneebaum as he revisits the places and people that changed his life.