The drama series focused on the six survivors of a crashed airline flight in the Brazilian Amazon jungle.

They are taken in by a mysterious tribe called the Chosen, who are descended from 16th-century British colonists who were lost in the rainforest.

Most of the group escapes the Chosen only to stir up a hornets' nest with the cannibalistic Jaguar People, led by an insane Canadian woman bent on domination of all the local tribes.

A novelization of the 2-hour pilot was written by Rob MacGregor, and a mass-market paperback was released by Harper (publisher) on 8 Aug 2000.

[3] Alliance Home Entertainment released the complete series on DVD in Canada only on 22 February 2011.