This documentary is literally about Lady Liuwa the last lioness, living across the isolated lands of Liuwa Plain. She is alone with no support or care from any of her own species as illegal trophy hunters came and wiped out her entire kind in that region, so she is the last only known lion that is surviving on Zambia's Liuwa Plain. In this documentary camera man Herbert Brauer spent four years as he watched her lonely life unfold and something amazing happens.
The documentary starts off with an very extreme long shot slightly zooming out of a buffalo with the endless background of Zambia's Liuwa Plain, this shows the audience that the environment is proper isolated and lonely. Then it cuts to close ups, mid shots and long shots of Lady Liuwa literally doing everything on her own from attacking for food and just spending time alone. The close ups show Lady Liuwa's facial expressions of her feelings and emotions of loneliness and the long shots again show how empty and alone she is on this land.
After about one minute into the documentary, panning longs shots are shown of the buffalos, zebras and birds to show that their species are still going strong as there are groups of them travelling together and then it fades to a static shot of Lady Liuwa walking across the empty land; this is heartbreaking to see as you can tell that she is the only lonely species that is travelling on her own.
When they talk about the illegal trophy hunters attacking Zambia's Liuwa Plain, there is a panning shot and the it fades to black and white this is to show the audience that it is in the past also with the help of the voiceover. This is also done in slow motion to give it more of a dramatic effect as well as it being black and white with the sad music playing in the background.
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