BRAZIL. Rio de Janeiro. 1996. Dr. Adolf FRITZ, a German surgeon killed by a shell explosion while operating on the frontline during World War I is believed to reincarnate - for the fourth time- into Ruben FARIAS to finish off his humanitarian cycle. The current Dr. Fritz is a spiritual healer who attends up to 1500 people a day in Rio and Sao Paulo. He takes, without aenesthesia, a tumour out of a patient.