Peter Owen Jones journeys from the Nepalese Himalayas to the south of India. He explores the Indian concepts of the transmigration of the soul, and Karma in Tibetan Buddhist monastery high in the mountains. Whilst at the Durga Puja festival in Calcutta Pete tries to understand why there are so many Hindu gods. He also travels to the deserts of Rajasthan where he finds out how devotion to a guru has led members of one Hindu sect to lay down their lives in service of his ideals, and members of another to walk on fire. In Mumbai he attends a Zoroastrian marriage, and explores why one of the world's oldest religions is in danger of disappearing. He discovers how Sikhism had a violent birth when he attends the 300th anniversary of one of its gurus, Gobind Singh, and then travels south to investiage Jainism, a faith that has renounced any form of violence against any living creature. Finally he spends Diwali in a tiny village, at a dung slinging festival with inevitable results.