A spectacular morning in the Swiss Alps. The sun emerges from behind white clouds and shines from a steely blue sky onto the lush green meadows where cows graze contentedly. The chiming of their bells echoes through the valley, dominated by the immense building of the monastery. People from all around the world make a pilgrimage to ask the Madonna of Einsiedeln for help and protection, especially because this Madonna and her Jesus are black.
Within view of the monastery lives a man. Strange objects are hanging in front of his garage: numerous mirrors, buckets full of water, painted stones, enigmatic sentences in large letters on the walls and windows. His beard is dyed violet, his hair red, green and yellow. A miraculous cap is on his head: covered with stars of David and crowns, mirrors and portraits of the last Ethiopian emperor, Haile Selassie, and himself…