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Anthropology professor, Terry Castro, discovers the remnant of a once-mighty nation that survived in the rain forest of Peru since the time of the Incas. The discovery puts Castro’s life at risk, and threatens the continued existence of the tribe when a giant pharmaceutical company learns of the tribe’s strange arrowhead poison that could also be a fountain of youth. With the help of Carrie Waters, an insecure medium, and the Chilco’s hundred-year-old shaman, Castro struggles to save the tribe. As the smoke clears from a cataclysmic battle between corporate greed and tribal innocence, the survivors are left to contemplate the question: Is extending human life worth the cost?

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