Barroco narrates a journey which begins in the eastern mountains of Bolivia, crosses the tropical jungle of Paraguay and Argentina, following through the Iguazú falls , and reaching finally Rio de Janeiro city and Minas Gerais, in Brazil. It is a trip in search of the cultural roots of a continent: the Latin American Baroque. In spite of appreciating the well known monuments of the Aztecs, Mayas or Incas, there are the cultural prints that survive day after day between religion and modernity, the declining ruins, public buildings and miserable houses that will be shown. The topic is the actual split between poverty and progress, the huge jungle city life, and the historical struggle for reconciliation among the native people, the European conquerors and the African slaves, with art, architecture and music.

Heinz Peter Schwerfel, art critic and recognized director, narrates with amazing images the background and remains of the first model of a multicultural society; which has been possible due to a unique and controversial phenomenon: the spread of the Occidental religious thought. Indeed, in the 17th century, the philosophical and religious vision of the unit of body and world, soul and mind, spirit and sense extends from Italy and Spain, and imposes all over Latin America, an idea which survives up to these days in the daily forms of the Latin-American culture.