Finland, Poland, and the Baltic states are rearming with anti-personnel landmines banned under the 1997 Ottawa Treaty, and this DW film asks why. Colonel Riku Mikkonen of the Finnish armed forces calls the weapons a cost-effective tool for national defense against Russia, a view Green MP Atte Harjanne shares in Helsinki. Left Alliance politician Li Andersson disagrees, warning that reintroducing banned weapons undermines the rules-based order Finland claims to defend. The film's counterweight is Zoran Ješić, who lost a leg to a landmine during the Bosnian war and speaks to what these weapons do to a country decades after the fighting ends, when farmland and forests remain unusable and civilians keep getting hurt. Interviews with deminers add the practical cost of clearing what gets planted now. Shot across Finland and the Baltic states with Bosnia as its historical counterpoint, the documentary lays out the argument on both sides, deterrence against Russian invasion versus the long tail of civilian harm, without resolving which one wins.