The Nile is a truly outstanding river, because it has not one, but thousands of springs. This documentary leads us to the headwaters in the African Rift Valley, a tectonic fault which has – throughout millions of years – piled up entire mountain ranges. The most famous is called Ruwenzori, it has up to 5,000m high summits. The melt waters of the glacier flow to the Nile, on adventurous detours. But also the wildlife in the fairy forests on the slopes of the Ruwenzori mountains is amazing: from the giant lobelias with the beautiful scarlet-tufted sunbirds, heather tree woods full of chameleons to the rain forests. Only a few years ago, the “true” spring of the Nile, the farthest away, has been discovered. It was found in Ruanda, in the Nyungwe National Park, where numerous monkeys scrimmage in the treetops. From there, the spring water flows to the notorious Lake Victoria.