Behind-the-scenes production of soil salt

Twenty-five years ago, in an exhibition, Wenders was stunned by two black-and-white photos taken at the Serperada gold mine in Brazil. People in the scene, one after another, their faces blackened by sand, carrying bags of heavy sand and taking simple ladders down to the bottomless abyss. They come from all walks of life, from unemployed intellectuals to farmers who lost their land. Gold is their common wish. These scenes come from the lens of Brazilian photographer Sebasti? O Salgado who returned from Paris in the early 1960s.

Twenty-five years later, Wenders, together with the photographer's son Juliano (who is also a documentary director), completed this documentary full of great love for mankind through rare home videos, interview videos, shooting with new projects and a large number of old black and white works by Sebastian.