Taboo looks at people who are outcast by their society including people accused of witchcraft in Ghana, lepers in India, and extreme body modifiers in the United States.
An Indian temple where a priest and his wife live with thousands of rats believed to be reincarnated ancestors. A community in Florida where clothing is banned. A night in a Manila cemetery where 5,000 people live among the dead.
In Gabon two people take a hallucinogenic herbal drug to communicate with their ancestors. A Frenchman uses absinthe as his source of inspiration. An American travels to Peru to experience Ayahuasca.