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The film opens in the jungles of Guatemala. A lightning storm
illuminates a prowling black jaguar and the ruins of the lost
city of Tikal, once the heart of the ancient Mayan civilization.
One thousand years ago, this great metropolis was mysteriously
abandoned. What happened here? What decided the fate of this place,
and what can the distant events that befell it tell us about our
own cities, our own civilization? What keeps all cities alive?
In the search for answers, Lost Worlds takes the audience on
a journey up into a world high above the streets of New York City,
down into the soil of the Catskill mountains, and beyond; we plunge
into the kelp forests of the Pacific and investigate biodiversity
with a team of scientists in the remote and fantastic table mountains
of Venezuela. Weaving together the stories of these different worlds,
the film provides insight into the diversity and interrelatedness
of living things, and ultimately, into the puzzle of human survival
itself.
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