Dixon, a former Venezuelan stuntman, actor and clown lives in a house at the sea near Caracas with his wife and son. When his mother dies, he inherits her weekly “Animal Lottery”, a meeting point of the indigenous of Puerto Ayacucho in the Venezuelan amazon region. Her death triggers his urge to rediscover his ancestral indigenous roots.

He wants to go back to his mother’s deserted village, Santa Rosa de Amanadona. Rumours say that sometimes - at night - voices of past life can still be heard there and Dixon wants to record them. This puts him into a dilemma as his wife has no interest in going back to live in the Amazon. But he is determined to go on this journey not only into a vanished past, but also up the Orinoco River and deep into the Amazon Forest. He wants to rediscover his roots and pass on this connection to his son Maxi.

He assembles an eclectic group, of friends and family like his cousins, who are part of his stilts-walkers group called “canillas largas” (long legs) as well as the openly gay singer Adalberto and the albino Mariachi singer Arturo. 

THE ANIMAL LOTTERY is a darkly funny documentary of a bizarre group of characters and yet a deeply serious journey of hope, going back in space and time in the search of a lost world.