00:00 Guyana is a forgotten and mysterious country. Stuck between Suriname, Venezuela and Brazil, the only English-speaking state in South America also remains one of the poorest and least populated on the continent. Anything can happen in this haunt of adventurers, cowboys and gold diggers.
11:20 Men in search of Eldorado
16:20 GeorgeTown, a capital full of energy
26:32 When the whole village relies on one delivery
36:14 Guyana cowboys
39:01 When their life hangs on a thread
47:40 Monkey Mountain a village cut off from the world
Apart from Georgetown, the seaside capital with the air of a colonial city, the rest of the territory looks like a lost world. The Amazonian forest covers everything, lacerated here and there by immense winding rivers. Beyond the jungle: a vast savannah scorched by the sun in summer and invaded by water in the rainy season. Few dare to venture inland. However, a handful of truck drivers take all the risks to supply food and gasoline to the gold mines and the few villages there. On board their Bedfords, these old English army trucks that have been patched up a thousand times, they have to face rutted tracks, cross a hostile jungle and brave torrents of mud. Their journeys take them to some of the most isolated areas on the planet. Here, we do not count in kilometers, but in days spent on the road. And a simple breakdown can quickly have dramatic consequences...
Director: Jean-Marie Lemaire, Julien Felix