In 1925 Colonel Fawcett and his son went missing in the rainforests of Brazil. The mystery of their disappearance and of their intended destination, the lost city of Z, became a worldwide phenomenon. Over one hundred men have lost their lives searching for the truth.
Fifty years on, Brian, the Colonel's remaining son, must protect his family's story from journalists, hungry to give it the Hollywood treatment. Yet Brian is concealing a more astonishing truth - one of arcane rituals, family heartbreak and mystical callings. He alone knows what really happened in the jungles of Amazonia.