Fresh Kills, on Staten Island, was the world's largest landfill, covering more than 2,200 acres and taking in New York City's garbage for decades. The film shows what the site looked and smelled like, the odors and pollution that reached neighboring streets, and the reputation it gave Staten Island, along with the long fight residents waged to get it closed. Community activists describe that campaign, and engineers and architects lay out the current transformation of the land into a park slated to be three times the size of Central Park. The documentary walks through the technical side of that conversion: capping the garbage mounds, the environmental control systems meant to stop further contamination, and plans for wind and solar installations, new roadways, and both active and passive recreation areas built into the old landfill's contours. Presented by Borough President James P. Molinaro and directed by Andy Levison, the film treats Fresh Kills as a single site that tells two stories back to back, one of civic failure and one of an attempt to fix it.