Gold prices near $1,500 an ounce have turned Colombia's mining regions into a new front in the country's civil war. Paramilitaries and leftist rebel groups fight for control of the pits, and Fault Lines travels to the contested zones to speak with the people caught between them: artisan miners whose families have worked these deposits for generations, some descended from enslaved laborers of the original colonial gold rush, and former coca farmers pushed out of that trade by the US-backed Plan Colombia. The film records Colombian Army helicopter raids on small community mining collectives, and workers describe a government they say protects multinational business interests while treating poor miners as expendable. North American mining companies appear as the new arrivals, securing concessions from the state that sometimes fall on indigenous territory. Thousands have already left land too dangerous to work or live on. The film stays with those still there, weighing whether to keep mining, flee, or wait to see who takes the hillside next.