1970s Italy: A young revolutionary watches his lover die in his arms from an overdose as police close in. Ridden with guilt, Giancarlo flees to India, hurls his passport into the sacred Ganges, and vanishes—reborn as Shiva Das, a wandering holy man seeking liberation from his past.
 

But karma follows like a shadow.

Even as a monk, he remains untamed—a radical spirit refusing to bow to any orthodoxy, Western or Eastern. The enlightenment he seeks is a freedom that answers to no doctrine. Through chaos and unpredictability, his journey of extremes leads to a final twist of fate: somewhere in the world, Snowie—a daughter he abandoned and never met—holds the key to his ultimate redemption. In his final hours, she stands at the crossroads between bureaucratic chains and spiritual release, between Italian earth and Ganges water, between bondage and salvation.

"Searching for Nirvana" is not just an odyssey of awakening—it’s a primal story of a rebel who made spirituality itself an act of defiance. Along his remarkable saga, we face a searing paradox: that our deepest liberation often lies in the reckoning of every choice we’ve made along the way.

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