California's Salton Sea began as an accident: in 1905, a breach in an irrigation canal sent the Colorado River pouring into a desert basin for two years, creating the state's largest lake almost overnight. This short film traces what happened after, from the 1950s and 60s boom years when resorts, marinas, and vacationing celebrities turned the shoreline into a desert Riviera, to the decades of agricultural runoff, rising salinity, and evaporation that followed. Footage shows the abandoned motels and crumbling docks left behind as the water receded and the fish and bird populations that once thrived there began dying off in mass numbers. The film treats the lake as a case study in unintended consequences, a manmade body of water sustained by farm drainage rather than nature, now caught between ecological collapse and public health concerns as dust from its shrinking shoreline blows into nearby communities. It is a compact look at how quickly a boomtown landscape can turn into a cautionary one.