The Niger Delta has absorbed fifty years of oil extraction, and the film opens on the damage: an estimated one and a half million tons of crude spilled into creeks and farmland, roughly the equivalent of fifty Exxon Valdez disasters. Local activists carry cameras into communities to record the toll themselves, filming oil-slicked waterways, dead mangrove forests, and wellheads that have leaked unchecked for months. Gas flares burn day and night beside people's homes, releasing as much greenhouse gas as eighteen million cars and carcinogens into densely populated air. The film follows Jonah Gbemre, who sued Shell over the flaring near his village and won in court, and Ifie Lott, who travels to the Netherlands to confront Shell directly at its Annual General Meeting with one question: will the company obey the ruling and stop flaring? Testimony from farmers and fishermen whose land, water, and health have collapsed runs throughout, set against a legal victory that, the film shows, changed little on the ground.