Rivers nurture human civilization; sunlight nourishes life. The pyramids along the Nile and the Sanxingdui ruins by a Yangtze River tributary demonstrate how rivers have fostered human creation, history and civilization. The secrets they hold are far from being fully revealed. The viewers will follow the camera into the two major river basins of the Yangtze and the Nile, exploring the impact of these streams on the evolution of human history and tracing the connections between rivers and human civilization.