The third episode of the magnificent serie "Amazon: Last call" shows us some of the terrible events of the struggle between amazonian indians and settlers who invaded their territories in the Javari river valley, "blinded by the riches of his jungle", looking for gold, oil and make massive felling timber business of trees with those who shared their home. This was the situation until 1996 Sydney Possuelo, as director of the Department of Tribes Unknown (Department of Isolated Indians) in the FUNAI (Fundação Nacional do Indio), achieving double the official area designated indigenous lands in Brazil in just two years. Possuelo redefined the indian territory, expelled hundreds of settlers and preachers proselytizing and went to the territory of the hitherto warring Korubo to to get a message of peace, understanding and respect for their world of values​​. In this documentary Sydney Possuelo shows Luis Miguel Dominguez (and this to us) the priceless recordings of those first friendly contacts in the indians managed to overcome the reluctance of many years of crimes and usurpations. A sample of how Sydney Possuelo fought and still fighting to be the indians themselves who decide the times and the ways of his encounter with the white man.

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