A renowned shaman, Rafael Santi, takes his grandson on a journey deep into the Ecuadorian Amazon. Along the way, he recounts stories from his life rife with magic, parable and metaphor in the hope that his would-be protégé will follow in his footsteps, and by doing so safeguard the ancestral wisdom of his people. Following in the rich tradition of Latin-American magical realism, and bearing influence from Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges and Isabel Allende, ‘Death of a Shaman’ offers a heightened blend of non-fiction and the magical, and from within these seemingly paradoxical elements the underlying truth of our story emerges.