Coffee moves more money than any legal commodity except oil, and this film follows it from the mountains of Ethiopia, where wild coffee trees still grow, to the trading floors and espresso bars that turned a bean into a global habit. Farmers in Uganda and Mexico describe watching world prices collapse under them while a cup in Rome or Seattle keeps its price steady, and economists lay out how that gap gets built into the trade. Interviews range from small growers weighing whether to rip out their trees for other crops, to roasters and traders explaining how commodity markets set a price that has almost nothing to do with what it costs to grow, to historians tracing coffee's spread from Ottoman coffeehouses to colonial plantations. The film treats coffee as a lens on globalization itself: one plant links a Ugandan hillside to a Milan bar to a Wall Street trading pit, and the people at each end rarely know much about the others. It closes on the fair-trade movement's attempt to shorten that distance.