North Korea's famine forms the backbone of this film, which estimates that up to three million people have starved to death over the preceding decade and that more than forty percent of the country's children suffer from malnutrition. Filmmakers Kate Blewett and Brian Woods use smuggled and hidden-camera footage shot inside North Korea and along the Chinese border to show orphaned children scavenging for food, begging in markets, and living in makeshift shelters after losing parents to starvation. Interviews with defectors and aid workers describe a state that hides the scale of the crisis from its own citizens and the outside world, while government propaganda footage of parades and monuments plays against the images of hunger the regime denies. The film follows several children by name as they move between border towns, orphanages, and the street, piecing together how a famine of this size persists behind a closed border. It is a plain, unglamorous record of what that closure costs the youngest people living inside it.