Self-styled survivalist and demolition expert Mickey Grosman leads a team of amateur explorers deep into the Amazon on a chaotic, death-defying quest to cross the South American continent - and it'll be a miracle if anyone makes it out alive.

Mickey fires one of the team's only experienced members before enlisting a local guide to lead them through a treacherous desert. When the team gets lost and runs out of water, things spiral, leaving one team member on the brink of death.

A perilous bridge crossing exposes Mickey's crusade to get good film footage before the team heads deep into the Eastern Andes. Mickey claims to have sent a team member who broke down back to civilisation, but team members are unable to find him.

Mickey loses his grip on the expedition when a spear-wielding indigenous tribe kidnaps them. He replaces his lead guide with an untrained woman who accuses him of having a God complex. The team stumbles into a strange community.

A near-deadly case of dengue fever almost stops Mickey before he's arrested at gunpoint and imprisoned in Brazil. Three months of missing footage leads to questions about his escape and the expedition's end.