The wildlife filmmaker Andreas Kieling accompanies scientists all over the world and thus gains access to specially protected places and species. In New Zealand, he is searching for the rarest bird in the world, the Kakapo. Only less than 150 individuals are still living, dispersed on three remote islands in the fjord land of the southern island. Every year, only one film team is allowed to travel to one of those islands, and only in the company of bird scientists. Before Andreas sets foot on the strictly protected