一份不祥的求助信被傳到了20世紀80年代的一家郵局里，將一名死信調查員與一名被綁架的鍵盤技術員聯系起來。

 來自與世隔絕的宗教社區的婦女們努力使她們的現實與她們的信仰相協調。通過背景故事，我們看到一個婦女社區聚集在一起，研究如何共同前進，為她們自己和她們的孩子建立一個更美好的世界。要么留下來戰斗，要么離開。她們不會什么都不做。

　　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...

一對朋友，一個德國人和一個俄國人，穿越時空最終來到了1941年。兩位朋友被迫做出決定，并要應對他們無法想象的困難。他們的友誼能否度過難關，保羅和謝爾蓋又會站在哪一邊？