Global food production runs on fossil fuels, and the film opens with the arithmetic problem that creates: how to feed nine billion people by 2050 once cheap oil stops underwriting agriculture. VPRO's Backlight team travels to the Netherlands, Belgium, and Silicon Valley to meet startups betting on data and automation instead of more land. Inside a solar-powered indoor farm, LED arrays tuned to mimic spring conditions grow vegetables year-round, and a chef presents carrot steaks aged in beef fat as a case for what vertical farming can actually put on a plate. Michael Pollan, Dan Barber, and philosopher Julian Baggini push back against the techno-optimism, raising questions about corporate control, nutrition, and whether efficiency is the same thing as good food. The film moves between traditional fields and these engineered growing rooms without picking a side outright, letting scientists and farmers argue past each other about trust and transparency in a food system that is already more industrial than most people realize.