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In the film, we follow the story of PS 397, the monarch butterfly tag that was released by two school boys and their teacher from Chaska Minnesota in early August 1975. This same tag and butterfly ended up being the very one Dr. Fred Urquhart found four months later, on January 9th, 1976, 10,000 feet high in the remote Sierra Madre mountains of Michoacán Mexico. The butterfly would have flown over 2,000 miles and for at least two months to get there. Fred discovered it five minutes after he arrived in the sanctuary for the first time – truly a miraculous situation, verified by eyewitnesses, including the National Geographic photographer Bianca Lavies and the surviving member of the discovery team, Catalina Aguado.