Honey bees have been dying off in massive numbers across the United States since 2006, and this film traces the die-off back to the cornfields where a new class of pesticide, neonicotinoids, coats nearly every acre of American corn. These nerve toxins reached the market, the film argues, without the Environmental Protection Agency running adequate tests on their toxicity to bees, and the consequences now ripple through an agricultural system where one in twelve American jobs depends on pollination. Environmentalists and beekeepers lay out the case for a ban on neonicotinoids until proper safety studies are done, while the chemical industry keeps selling the products at a profit measured in billions and government regulators move slowly, if at all. The film follows the people whose livelihoods sit closest to the collapse, watching their traditions and incomes erode as hives empty out season after season. It frames the bee die-off as a test case for how a regulatory system responds when a profitable chemical and a fragile ecosystem are put on a collision course.