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The incredible story of Hiro Onoda, a Japanese lieutenant who defended the small island of Lubang in the Philippines for twenty-nine years after the end of World War II.

A modern-day Robinson Crusoe is a vivid tale of the purpose and meaning of our lives.

At the edge of the world, among the forests and mountains of the Philippines, a story unfolded, locked in time and lost in space. At the end of 1944, Japanese troops began to retreat from the island of Lubang. Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda received an order that changed his fate - to hold the island at all costs until the Imperial Army returned. There is only one rule: you are not allowed to die by your own hand. In case you are captured by the enemy, you must lie. And so Onoda's journey began-a journey through decades of fictional warfare."

In Twilight of the World Werner Herzog immortalises the years of Onoda's absurd yet epic struggle. The soldier who became a character in his own novel, and among the web of fictional battles and real trials created a tragic symphony of life against the backdrop of an endless forest and immortal time.