Acclaimed Filipino filmmaker, Lav Diaz, directs Gael García Bernal as the gifted Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan, who rebels against the King of Portugal and instead persuades the Spanish Crown to fund his bold expedition. The voyage is exhausting, pushing his crew to their limits, and when he arrives in the Malayan Archipelago, Magellan becomes obsessed with conquest and conversion, sparking violent uprisings. This is not the myth of Magellan, but the truth of his journey.