A German photographer on assignment in Sri Lanka, stumbles across a beautiful American woman. Together they narrowly escape a suicide bombing by a local terrorist group.
Taking a break from work, in a country that most would describe as paradise, they find that first impressions are totally misleading. Paradise is a personal experience, as are appearances, and what may be lovable for some can by quite barbaric for others.
The real paradise however - the actual Garden of Eden - they never thought truly existed. Not until an American anthropology professor assures them that it does. He is convinced of having found the biblical paradise, but seems to have forgotten that it is a place where sin originated.
Chasing their individual dreams, a group of drifters joins him on the journey to paradise, but instead of the heaven they expect, they find nothing but their worst nightmares.