The Dakota Access Pipeline is planned to run 1,200 miles from North Dakota to Illinois, crossing under the Missouri River just upstream of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation. Independent media crew Unicorn Riot embed themselves inside the resulting resistance camps, filming water protectors as they block construction equipment, face off with private security dogs, and get arrested by militarized police lines backed by armored vehicles and sound cannons. The footage is raw and often shot in the middle of confrontations rather than reconstructed after the fact, capturing tear gas deployments, mass arrests, and the daily life of a camp that grew into one of the largest indigenous-led protests in decades. Tribal members, environmental activists, and veterans who joined the camp speak on why they came and what they believe is at stake for the water supply and treaty rights. The film stays close to the ground, skipping studio interviews and expert commentary in favor of what its cameras were actually present to record at Standing Rock through the fall and winter of the pipeline fight.