Coca has been grown and chewed in Bolivia for centuries, but Washington's war on cocaine has turned the plant into a battleground. Journalist Sandra Jordan travels a mountain road out of La Paz where armed troops blockade cocalero farmers chanting "coca or death," and films the tear gas and rubber bullets used to break up the crowd trying to reach the growing regions deep in the Andes. The film examines the US-backed Dignity Plan, an $85 million scheme to replace coca income with crops like oranges, which never comes close to matching coca's profits and leaves thousands of farmers jobless. Bolivia's president points to a booming economy and foreign investment as proof the plan works, even as the same substitution program has pulled nearly $300 million a year out of the coca economy. Interviews with farmers, officials, and drug-trade analysts trace how the uprising spreads beyond the cocaleros to groups angry over privatization, blocking the roads that connect Bolivia's cities and its neighbors.