Roger Miklos died the way he lived: suddenly, at a dusty Arizona truck stop, chasing a sunken ship and followed by rumour, chaos and debt. The flamboyant treasure hunter left behind his Northern Irish wife, a fractured family, and the lingering promise of Nazi gold hidden somewhere in the Caribbean.

A former Nevada cop, DEA agent and head of security at Caesar’s Palace, Roger reinvented himself during the wild, unregulated era of 1970s Caribbean shipwreck hunting. He became a major player and even discovered the remains of The Pinta, one of Columbus’s ships. Every fortune he pulled from the sea was poured into the next, bigger legend.

In the early 1980s, Roger made the claim that defined his life: he had located a modified German U-boat from 1943 that he believed had fled the Reich with stolen Nazi treasure. For decades he pursued officials, drafted elaborate excavation plans and amassed hundreds of documents to support the story, yet he never attempted a recovery.

After his death, his wife Sheila left Key West for Belfast with all his belongings and two suitcases of mysterious documents. The family now faces the myth he spent a lifetime constructing and must ask where the legend ends and the truth begins.

This creative documentary is a blend of character portrait, historical investigation and family saga, told through intimate archive, bespoke animation and material from Roger’s final interview. It unravels the story of a man who lived for his own legend and a family trying to understand what of it, if anything, was real.