The history of the Flood, as described in the Bible, is represented in many mythologies: world-wide there are numerous variations on the story of Noah‘s Ark. The Greek philosopher Plato also related the story of a highly cultivated civilisation that was said to have gone down due to a flood. He named the submerged continent Atlantis. The English bestselling author Colin Wilson, key figure of this film, investigated the parallels between the myths about the prehistoric history of mankind and the scientific theories about the same subject.