Huancabamba, a farming region high in the Peruvian Andes, sits on land a mining company wants to develop, and Michael Watts' film follows the community caught between the two. Farmers describe a way of life built on subsistence agriculture and land passed down through generations, and the film sets their testimony against the arrival of a capital-intensive extraction project that promises jobs and development in exchange for the valley itself. Local residents speak directly to camera about what the mine would mean for their water, their fields, and their traditions, and the footage stays close to daily village life, work in the fields, community meetings, the landscape itself, rather than staging dramatic confrontation. The film does not pretend the two sides are evenly matched: a global company with capital on one side, a subsistence community with generations of accumulated knowledge on the other. What it documents is the argument over what counts as progress when the people being developed were never asked what they wanted to keep.