Southern Africa is gripped in a punishing drought. Across the region plants and animals are suffering. At times like this water becomes critical survival and wetlands become magnets for life. This film is a celebration of South Africa's greatest wetland - Lake St Lucia. There is food available and enough water for the animals that depend on standing water to survive, including the park's hippos, crocs and numerous water birds. But the system does face challenges; the mouth is artificially closed cutting it off from the ocean. This has devastating consequences for some of the park's habitats such as mangroves, which have fallen silent.