Sugar built fortunes in Florida and Louisiana on land cleared by enslaved labor, and this two-part film by Brian McKenna traces that industry from its plantation origins into the twentieth century, when tariffs, subsidies, and campaign donations kept it profitable long after slavery ended. The film follows how sugar barons cultivated relationships with lawmakers in Washington and Tallahassee to protect price supports that cost American consumers billions and lock out foreign competitors. It then turns to the Everglades, where decades of agricultural runoff have altered water chemistry across the wetland and put native plant and animal species at risk, tracing the chain from field fertilizer to canal to swamp. McKenna interweaves archival material on the industry's slave-era roots with more recent footage of the political fights over regulation and cleanup costs. Produced by Galafilm in 2005, the documentary treats sugar less as a commodity than as a case study in how one industry can shape both a landscape and a legislature over two centuries.