The costumes and acting are a little bit better than in the same director's "The Calamari Wrestler," but the spiritual/theological/karmic message is worse developed and explained than in that film. After watching the film, many practical questions remain: what really happened in the hero's past? Who was conspiring against him, who were his allies, and - most of all - were the people in his home village telling the truth or were they part of someone else's plot? Not only are the answers not given, it appears the writer and director had no clear answer themselves.