More than a billion people worldwide lack reliable access to safe water, and the film opens with the statistic that drives it: roughly 3,900 children die every day from unsafe or insufficient water supplies. From there it tracks how water itself became a commodity, following multinational companies that took over municipal water systems in cities from Cochabamba, Bolivia to towns in Ghana and Britain, and the price hikes and shutoffs that followed. Interviews with residents, activists, and former utility workers lay out what happens when a household can't pay a water bill, while economists and company representatives defend privatization as the only way to fund aging infrastructure. Archival news footage of the Cochabamba water protests, where public anger forced a foreign consortium out of the city, gives the argument its sharpest scene. The film treats water scarcity less as a natural disaster than as a policy choice, made in boardrooms and finance ministries, and asks who gets to control a resource nobody can live without.