Around the world more than 14 million people suffer from Alzheimer’s disease. Despite huge efforts by doctors and the pharmaceutical industry over the years and the great deal of money that has been invested in finding a cure or at least slowing down the mental deterioration of patients, all attempts have thus far been in vain. Are the popular assumptions about the causes of Alzheimer’s incorrect? For the first time, this documentary presents a whole range of studies, which throw fresh light on the onset of Alzheimer’s and on possible treatments. Incredibly well-researched, the film describes, for example, the case of Sr. Bernadette and her fellow nuns, who lived and died in a US convent. Autopsy results showed that the brains of some nuns, who were mentally fit to an advanced age and had excellent memories, displayed evidence of severe cases of Alzheimer’s – dementia degree 6, the absolute end stage. How can this bewildering finding be explained? Research results from the USA, Canada and Europe are currently casting Alzheimer’s disease in a different light, and yet these very promising research avenues are often not pursued by the pharmaceutical industry because they offer insufficient profit.