In the highlands of Papua New Guinea, tribal disputes have traditionally been settled with bows and arrows, under customary rules that kept casualties low. This film tracks what happens when those disputes get settled with guns instead. One local describes the shift bluntly: "Now that guns have come, when there are attacks, people go berserk. They hose down whole villages, torch every house and shoot women and children." Drugs move alongside the weapons, feeding the escalation. A government minister admits on camera that the state has effectively lost control of the region, saying officials must "step in quickly and establish authority because at the moment, the warriors think they can do whatever they want." The film sits with that admission rather than resolving it, using interviews with villagers, fighters, and officials to show a highlands where no functioning police or courts reach, and where corruption has let armed groups operate largely unchecked. The stakes raised here are stark: without intervention, the film suggests, Papua New Guinea risks sliding toward becoming a failed state.