Paris 1930, Henri Charrière dit "Papillon", est condamné à la prison à vie pour un meurtre qu'il n'a pas commis. Il est envoyé au bagne de Cayenne, en Guyane, où il y fera la connaissance de Louis Dega, un célèbre faussaire. Déterminé à s’évader par tous les moyens, Papillon fera équipe avec Louis, pour trouver le moyen de s’échapper de cet enfer.
Vincent, a 20-year old geology student from Paris, goes to French Guyana to do an internship at a gold mining company. Taken under the wing of local gold lord Antoine Serra, Vincent quickly falls into the much more lucrative and dangerous world of gold trafficking. From Serra, who acts like a father to him, Vincent learns everything there is to know about the business. Newcomers aren't welcome - Louis, Serra's right hand, makes it clear that he does not trust him. Vincent and Serra start building a camp to explore a gold mine, but tensions rise to a full-fledged war between them and their Brazilian competitors. And things get even more complicated when Vincent discovers that the mythical Sarah Bernhard mine is not a legend. The Guyanese jungle is a world where businessmen, gangsters, geologists and soldiers collide, and men kill and are killed for a few grams of the precious metal.
