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For centuries, the Maroons in Suriname's rainforest have kept capitalist society at bay. Descendants of enslaved Africans who escaped Dutch plantations, they have thrived by preserving their ancestral traditions. In recent years, however, economic interests have encroached upon their land. Monikondee (Money Land) follows Boogie, a boatman who delivers essential cargo to remote Maroon and Indigenous communities along the border river separating Suriname and French Guiana. While the communities continue to grow their own food, they are becoming increasingly dependent on boatmen like Boogie to bring in vital supplies, as floods and droughts destroy their crops and gold mining poisons their water. When Boogie is summoned by his clan leaders to attend his nephew's trial, the demands of his money-driven work begin to conflict with his traditional duties. During a winding journey deep upstream, the currents become increasingly unpredictable.

1949, a French explorer goes on a solitary expedition in the Amazon forest. He leaves behind him a diary that reflects the meaning of Pure Life and his encounters but leaves the mystery of his own disappearance unsolved.

It's been called an army of thieves and cutthroats. A band of hired killers. But from the burning sands of Northern Africa to the jungles of South America, whenever the odds are long and the battle fierce, the French Foreign legion has been called into action.

Every fragrance a woman wears is composed of two main ingredients. A scent, and ... passion.

The slammer Mauricette Bonnarien is also a dock worker at the port of Dégrad-des-Cannes, in French Guiana. She has a big complex about her surname (which translates as 'Goodfornothing'), attributed to her ancestor after the abolition of slavery, and begins an administrative procedure to change it.

The French Foreign Legion as seen through the eyes of soldiers during exhaustive training in the Amazon jungle, the wounded legionnaire who lost his leg, and the army veterans who share their memories.

In the 1950s, La Reunion families were sent to cultivate land in the Sakay region in Madagascar. After having farmed for 23 years, they were expelled in 1975 following the Malagasy revolution. The French authorities propose to them to reiterate the experience in Guyana. Some are embarking on this new life of pioneers, despite the climate and size of forests. In the heart of these landscapes in the four corners of the France of Overseas, they tell us their journey and their attachment to the land, whether Malagasy, French or Guyanese.

At an infamous prison in the Amazon, the most dangerous criminals on earth faced hard labor, a hostile environment, and death by guillotine; today, it's deserted, and new discoveries reveal why this compound was built and why it was abandoned.

Vincent, Serra, Louis and the gold miners arrive at the camp. The prospectors doggedly dig through the mud, but only find a smattering of gold nuggets.

In Saint Elias, Vincent has moved in with Anita, even though Serra labeled her a prostitute and damned the couple.

Serra finds his old friend dead, but decides to nonetheless cover for Vincent with help from Nathalie, who has stolen the gold he owes the Quinteros from him.

After an armed battle, two young Brazilians named Tomasinho and Carmen take control of the camp. A terrorized Vincent does his best to save his skin.

With the complicity of Silva and help from Claudio, Serra takes back his mine. Vincent and Serra go to Brazil to see Clara Quintero and her mother, hoping to make a truce and strike a deal. As Serra gets pummeled, Vincent drinks tea with the Quinteros and works out a deal with them. A deal that traps both Nathalie and Waki, but one they can't refuse..

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 more dangerous - world of gold trafficking.

Stuck in Saint Elias, a remote village reachable only by dugout canoe, Vincent feels isolated and cut out of the adventure. Serra keeps him reeled in by telling him about a local legend: a mythic gold mine called Sarah Bernhardt. Vincent tries to convince Louis they need his "engineering" expertise, but Serra's right-hand-man would rather get rid of the young Parisian for good. He rebels and violence breaks out all round. Clara Quintero, a Brazilian crime lord and Serra's biggest rival, is looking to take over their budding camp by force.