With an ethnographic documentation of the vibrant community of Bahia, a region in the Northeast of Brazil predominantly inhabited by working-class people, visual anthropologist Mathijs van de Port reflects on the profound experience of getting lost. Where Can I Get Lost? explores the colonial heritage, alienation, identity and spirituality ever present in the Bahá’í community. Equipped with sincere curiosity and a filmmaker's eye, he seeks to understand a culture beyond the colonial narrative that often marginalizes them.

Placing himself among the “misfits, outcasts, desperados, heretics and perverts”, van de Port interweaves his personal reflections on the limitations of the modern world, in which desire and imagination are covered in concrete, with anthropologists’ observations and interviews with the quotidian civilians. Weed pickers, fruit vendors, devoted believers of the Bahá’í Faith, are all given a place on his stage to share their personal relation to life, religion, nature and the unknown, revealing a shared desire to believe in, and eventually explore, a world larger than the one we know. Resisting a voice of god attitude, a characteristic of the essay film, van de Port constantly questions his authority, tempting the audience to engage with him in a critical reflection on the all too often presumed cultural and philosophical dominance of Western perception