ABOVE AND BELOW is a rugged roller coaster ride with survivalists in the USA, in a world full of challenges and beauty. Rick & Cindy live in the dark flood channels deep below the glittering streets of the Las Vegas metropolis. Here they have been getting by with only the bare necessities for quite some time. Dave lives as a hermit in an abandoned bunker in the dry no man's land. Unless a film crew visits him, he hardly sees a soul in his daily life. April, a young woman, has settled in the stony, inhospitable desert of the U.S. state of Utah and is meticulously training here with a few comrades-in-arms to simulate the course of a Mars mission in which she herself will probably never take part. The documentary ABOVE AND BELOW takes its viewers to the fringes of American society. In the extraordinary lives of the protagonists, we encounter souls that are more akin to us than we would suspect.