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N Inspired by the true story of a woman who changed the way we understand our wo
rld. In 1933 three young, gifted anthropologists are thrown together in the jung
le of New Guinea. They are Nell Stone, fascinating, magnetic and famous for her
controversial work studying South Pacific tribes, her intelligent and aggressive
husband Fen, and Andrew Bankson, who stumbles into the lives of this strange co
uple and becomes totally enthralled.