On the tiny Canary Island of La Gomera there's an ancient forest, a forest that gives a glimpse of what pre-ice-age Europe and North Africa would have looked like. In the Mist tells the story of this forest's survival and how it influences the lives of the islands residents. The film explores how an island with less rainfall than Afghanistan can support a rain forest so humid that one of its most prolific inhabitants is an amphibian.—Anonymous