The Scream of the Butterfly

The Scream of the Butterfly is a young American's physical and spiritual journey through the initiations of youth. His odyssey takes him for a visit with a mysterious monk in Burma prior to the bloody revolution of 1988, on an adventure with a 'lion man' conservationist who is killed by poachers in Kenya, to an encounter with mercenaries implicated in the assassination of the president of the Comoros Islands, and an orientation session with a doomsday cult and parties during his college days in the United States. His spiritual awakening begins while on a Red Cross mission to the areas devastated by the eruption of Mt Pinatubo and his volunteer work in the Cordilleras of the Philippines, leads to a psychic healer's clinic, an encounter with the Pope on World Youth Day in Manila and culminates at a funeral pyre in the shadows of the majestic snow-capped Himalayas.