Ghana sits on gold, cocoa, and rice fields, and fifty years after independence it remains one of the poorest countries in the world. Academic Robert Beckford travels the country to find out why, tracing the supply chains behind rice, chocolate, and gold back to the farms and mines where they start. He meets children working cocoa farms instead of sitting in classrooms, and talks with farmers who describe losing land and income to multinational buyers who set prices they cannot negotiate. Beckford puts the same question to officials from the World Bank and IMF that he puts to local politicians and activists: whether decades of loans, structural adjustment, and trade rules have actually deepened Ghana's poverty rather than solving it. Interviews with government figures sit alongside testimony from the farmers and families living with the results, and corruption within Ghana's own institutions gets examined as part of the picture rather than left out of it. The film stays with specific people and specific transactions rather than abstractions, building its argument from cocoa pods and mining pits upward.