Werner Herzog, in an unusually personal mode, pays tribute to the late, great travel writer Bruce Chatwin as he journeys to the distant locales that inspired Chatwin’s work. Herzog and Chatwin were kindred spirits and close friends: the writer left Herzog his rucksack after his death in 1986, and it saved Herzog’s life when he was trapped in a snow storm filming Scream of Stone. Following in Chatwin’s footsteps, Herzog takes us to Patagonia; to Australia, where he tries to decode the mysteries of the Aboriginal songlines; to the Neolithic structures in Wiltshire; and to Ghana, where Chatwin visited Herzog when he adapted Chatwin’s novel The Viceroy of Ouidah into the film Cobra Verde. He gets candid interviews with Chatwin’s biographer and with his widow, who frankly discusses her husband’s bisexuality. The result is a uniquely moving tribute to a man who, like the filmmaker, pursued big ideas, wild characters and ecstatic experiences.