Four-part documentary about the forced collective suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, led by religious cult leader Jim Jones. After a rather peculiar childhood, sadistic preacher Jim Jones starts the Peoples Temple, a religious sect based on Marxist principles in Indianapolis. Members are simply locked up there and Jones' hunger for power only grows. The press exposes Jones' darker side and triggers a mass exodus to Jonestown. His followers soon realize that it is not the utopia their leader promised.