影片剧本由亚历杭德罗·冈萨雷斯·伊纳里图与长期合作伙伴尼古拉斯·迦科波恩联合撰写，故事主角是一位著名的墨西哥记者、纪录片制片人，多年之后，他回到祖国，试着真正面对他的身份、家庭关系、愚蠢的个人回忆，以及墨西哥的过往和现状。

故事改编自亨利·詹姆斯的中篇小说《丛林中的野兽》，它描绘了一个令人叹为观止的结局：25 年来，在一个巨大的夜总会里，一男一女守望并等待着一件未知的事情。 从 1979 年到 2004 年，我们跟随迪斯科音乐到电子音乐的演变，一个爱情的故事，一个痴迷的故事。 最终，这个“ 东西”出现了，但它的形式比预期的要悲惨得多……

根据莎士比亚创作罗密欧与朱丽叶灵感来源的真实事件改编，以音乐剧的形式讲述了有史以来最伟大的爱情故事。

老农民阿方索回到了自己的家乡照顾身患重病的儿子，他重新找到了曾经居住的老房子，却发现自己的前妻带着女婿和外孙依然住在这里。等待着他的故乡已经几乎变成一片荒原，庞大的甘蔗种植园环绕着他的老房子，日夜烟雾缭绕。阿方索17年前抛下家人离开，如今他试图重新返回，挽救亲情，却发现在这个已经物是人非的地方，很多答案只能自己去寻找。

The boisterous, arrogant professor Challenger, a reputed biologist and anthropologist, dares the London Zoological Society to mount an expedition to verify his spectacular claim, without physical proof, that his previous expedition to the Amazonian basin found live dinosaurs. Apart from him and his 'socialite' counterpart, professor Summerlee, it consists of experienced discoverer Lord Roxbury, the young reporter Ed Malone -who got publicly struck down with Challenger's umbrella at his arrival- and Jennifer Holmes, Malone's news agency's boss's daughter, essentially as conditions for putting up the money. In Brazil they are joined by Jennifer's brother David and local 'guide' Manuel Gomez. They soon discover the dinosaurs are real and dangerous, like giant spiders, but loose their helicopter and thus are desperate for a way down from the isolated plateau. They learn Roxbury knew about the fate of Burton White, an explorer whose diary they find, thus presume to be dead, in search of diamonds, and confirmation of the local tribe being the lethal guardians of the plateau's secrets, but also get surprising help...