DIXON, a former Venezuelan stuntman, actor, and clown, lives with his wife and son in a house by the sea near Caracas. When his mother dies, he inherits her weekly "Animal Lottery," a gathering place for the Indigenous people of Puerto Ayacucho in the Venezuelan Amazon region. Her death sparks in him the desire to reconnect with his 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 JOURNEY TO SANTA ROSA DE AMANADONA is a tragicomic documentary about a bizarre group of characters and, at the same time, a touchingly hopeful journey in search of a vanished world.