Colombia's oil boom has turned into a war zone along the Caño Limón pipeline, blown up 170 times in a single year by guerrillas demanding a cut of the profits. Journalist Saira Shah travels through the region to see what $100 million in US military aid, sent by George W. Bush to protect the pipeline, actually buys on the ground: American-trained troops guarding oil infrastructure while armed groups extort companies and terrorize workers. She talks to indigenous communities pushed off land they have lived on for generations, and to protesters demanding the government hold multinational oil firms accountable for environmental damage and displacement. The film lays out the close relationship between Bogotá and the oil companies, and the near-total absence of oversight that relationship produces. Shah does not resolve the conflict; she shows a country where oil revenue, foreign military money, and armed violence have become inseparable, and where the people living above the pipeline have the least say in any of it.