Coal mined from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana has nowhere to burn nearby, so mining companies want to ship it by rail to new export terminals on the Pacific Northwest coast, load it onto freighters, and sell it to power plants in Asia. This film follows the fight over that plan, tracking the coal trains through the towns and rail corridors that would carry the shipments and the coastal communities that would host the terminals. It lays out the case against the project: mile-long coal trains passing through populated areas, dust and noise along the route, and the argument that burning the coal overseas does nothing to reduce the climate impact of digging it up in the first place. The film treats the proposal as a decision point for the region, weighing the jobs and revenue promised by the coal industry against the environmental and public-health costs borne by the communities in between.