Earthen building forms the case at the center of this film: houses made from mud, cob, and packed earth, filmed across four continents over four years as a case for a different kind of shelter. Builders and advocates argue that earthen construction produces healthier homes than conventional lumber-and-drywall housing, free of the toxins and off-gassing common in standard materials. The film pairs that argument with a second one about community, contending that raising children well requires the kind of shared village life that suburban subdivisions were built to eliminate. Its proposed fix is the eco-village: clusters of earthen homes designed to replace cul-de-sacs and isolated lots with shared land and closer neighbors. Footage moves between construction sites, finished earthen structures, and the people living in them, treating the buildings themselves as evidence rather than illustration. The film functions as an argument for rethinking the North American suburban model from the foundation up, literally, starting with what houses are made of and who lives near whom.