Rare earth minerals sit inside nearly every smartphone, computer, and modern weapons system, and China controls 95 percent of the global supply. When Beijing cut exports and prices jumped 300 percent in a single year, Australian mining company Lynas moved to fill the gap by building what the film describes as the world's largest rare earth refinery, in Kuantan, Malaysia. This 101 East report from Al Jazeera puts that project against the memory of a defunct rare earth plant that operated in the country two decades earlier and left contamination residents still associate with birth defects and cancer. Reporters visit the refinery site, question Lynas executives on their waste-management claims, and talk to local residents and activists organizing against the plant. The film weighs the jobs and revenue Malaysia stands to gain against the specific environmental record the industry has already left behind in the same country, without settling which side is right.