Astrid Bussink's The Lost Colony documents the attempts of some long-time employees to restore a scientific lab devoted to studying monkeys in order to help cure a variety of diseases. The Abkhazian institute, built in the twenties, stood as a point of pride for decades, but after a war with neighboring Georgia fell into disrepair in the nineties. The film charts the organization's proud history, as well as the bittersweet efforts to restore it to it's glory days.