Paul Kruger, the last president of the Transvaal republic, is said to have hidden a vast fortune in gold before the Boers lost their war with Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. This film tracks the legend from its origins in the Boer War through the decades of failed expeditions it has inspired, and centers on Fritz Joubert Duquesne, a Boer soldier turned self-styled spy and con artist who claimed at various points to know exactly where the money lay. Historians and treasure hunters lay out the competing theories, the buried wagons, the sunk ships, the Pretoria vaults, while the film weighs how much of Duquesne's story was genuine intelligence and how much was a lifelong hustle aimed at gullible investors. Archival photographs, battlefield locations, and expert interviews carry the narrative, tracing a fortune that may never have existed in the form the legend describes, and a con man who made a career out of insisting it did.