A guard on the Soviet-Chinese border who, after surviving a deadly attack, decides to become a monk but must continually prove along the way that he's capable of becoming the enlightened man he set out to be.

Filmed one summer night in Greece, New Worlds: The Cradle of Civilization, captures Bill Murray, Jan Vogler and Friend's final performance of their European "New Worlds" tour.

The story of a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy, a man addicted to sadness, who has such need for pity, he's willing to do everything to evoke it from others. This is the life of a man in a world not cruel enough for him.