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- Cold and scurvy were often the only companions. Shootings and impenetrable wilderness did the rest. More than 30,000 knights of fortune fought their way through the wilderness of British Columbia in the middle of the 19th century. Many failed long before their destination - the fairy tale goldfields of the Cariboo Mountains in northern Canada. Even today, fortune seekers are still searching for the "Bonanza", the fabulously rich gold vein, in the mountains of British Columbia. Around the legendary gold digger towns of Barkerville, Cache Creek and Lillooet, some of the dropouts have settled down and are digging for nuggets with rusty shovel excavators in the overburden. Most, however, lose their entire fortune, return to their homelands destitute or remain in the wilderness as modern trappers. The film visits some of the gold seekers and tells the story of their hope for fast wealth in the far north of Canada.
- The dragon is the oldest sign of Chinese imperial dynasties. The conquerors Yandi and Huang made the dragon their sign of power. Since then, the Chinese have been regarded as sons of the dragon, China as the land of the dragon. So what could be more natural than to start the Chinese New Year with a "festival in honour of the dragon"? The Hong Kong Chinese began the New Year celebrations already under the British flag with the legendary "dragon boat race". We mingle with the audience in Aberdeen, the old port of the metropolis of millions, search in Buddhist and Taoist temples for the coveted fortune horoscopes for the New Year and let us predict the future in the quarter of the fortune tellers. The film is an insight into a bizarre Far Eastern way of celebrating the New Year.
- Disused Royal Air Force fighter jets thunder across the evening sky outside Capetown towards Table Mountains. They are Lightnings, Hunter and Buccaneer planes, names that only airforce pilots and a few flight madmen have said so far. But this community is getting bigger and bigger. For five years Mike Beachy Head, a former test pilot of the South African Air Force, has dedicated himself to this expensive and dangerous hobby and founded "Thundercity", a quite noisy company. Mike and his crew buy decommissioned fighter jets, completely refit them and offer solvent air tourists supersonic flights in the sky above the South African cape. "There are people looking for the last kick," says Mike, "people from Hollywood or rich Russians. Sometimes it's just normal people who scratch the last cent together just to have a good outbreak of sweat. Many get out and think bungee jumping is kid stuff." The film tries to get to the bottom of this - admittedly charming - madness.