The banana industry supplies one of the most eaten fruits in the world, and this film follows the workers who grow it through what the title calls blood, bullets, and poison: violence tied to plantation control, and pesticide exposure that leaves lasting health damage on the people who spray and pick the crop. It sets the cheerful marketing of bananas, the cartoon logos and lunchbox branding, against accounts from growers and laborers in the countries where the fruit is actually produced, sometimes called the "banana lands" for how thoroughly the industry shapes local politics and economies. Producers, workers, and consumers all get a voice, and the film uses their testimony to trace how far a piece of fruit travels from a sprayed field to a supermarket shelf without the labor or the chemicals ever showing up on the label. The gap between that image and the plantation floor is the film's real subject.