The White Diamond

Astronautic engineer Graham Dorrington tries his hand at a journey towards the massive waterfalls of Kaieteur, in the heart of Guyana, hoping that his helium dirigible successfully passes over the treetops. His undertaking is not without risks: twelve years earlier, a similar expedition had attempted to fly over this extraordinary rainforest habitat, but it culminated in the tragic death of Dieter Plage, a friend of Dorrington. Werner Herzog is among the protagonists of the expedition, departing in a new prototype dirigible to observe the lost world of this uncontaminated rainforest, one of the least explored territories on the planet. He films and tells this astonishing story in an extraordinary “truthdocumentary”.