Making a climate change film called The Age of Stupid took five years, and this film follows that production from the inside. It opens with the money problem: backers pitching the project in London meeting rooms, trying to convince investors that a documentary about global warming could work as a mainstream release rather than a niche cause film. The crew's location shoots take them into more dangerous territory, including a stretch in Nigeria where the team has a close call with kidnappers while filming material tied to oil extraction. Actor Pete Postlethwaite appears throughout as the production's on-camera anchor, playing the archivist character who narrates the finished film from an imagined future, and the cameras catch him working through takes and preparing for the role. Late in the process, the film shows the recording of a full orchestral score, the kind of expense and ambition usually reserved for studio pictures rather than independent environmental documentaries. The result is less a film about climate change itself than about what it costs, in money, risk, and years, to get a warning like that in front of an audience.