In the Faroe Islands, a North Atlantic archipelago between Iceland and Norway with almost no agriculture, the sea has always supplied food, and that includes pilot whales killed in a hunt called the grindadráp, or grind. Motherboard's cameras catch the practice in the open, waters turning red as whales are driven ashore and slaughtered, footage the film sets against decades-old archival reels of the same tradition. Lamya Essemlali, president of Sea Shepherd France, arrives with hundreds of volunteers under an operation named Grind Stop, arguing the killing could end tomorrow if the will existed. The Faroese response is not quiet: one man at a town hall meeting calls the activists terrorists to their faces. Marine ecologist and islander Kjartan Hoydal makes the other case, that the grind is one piece of a subsistence economy with few alternatives. The film sits between both sides without settling the argument, following a Sea Shepherd campaign colliding directly with a community that sees its food supply, not a spectacle, on the line.