With a shovel and a wetsuit, amateur gold digger Albert Fausel inspects a river after torrential rains drenched Northern California. The rainy winter, in a region affected by drought for two decades, revives the memory of a gold rush in the 19th and 20th centuries, which welcomed hundreds of miners in search of El Dorado.

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