O Homem Universal is a documentary that claims the memory of Arnoldo Palacios (1924 – 2015), an important representative of Afro literature in Colombia. It narrates his journey lived in the midst of the extreme poverty of the Colombian Pacific; his high ideals of understanding human reality lead him to different scenarios in European literature.

A beautiful Italian woman is told by her black friend about the Carribean love god Jambaya who appears in the form of the snake. By the end of the movie, Cassini has decided to give herself to Jambaya while Cunningham departs with her white friend's ex-lover, establishing a neat symmetry between their respective fantasies of exoticism.