The Algonquin people of Quebec once controlled a territory the size of a small country, living off its rivers and forests for centuries before European contact. Filmmakers Richard Desjardins and Robert Monderie travel through that same territory today, visiting communities like Kitcisakik, where families still live without electricity or running water a few kilometers from logging roads and hydroelectric dams built on land the Algonquin never formally ceded. Interviews with elders and band members lay out a history of broken agreements dating back to the fur trade, while government officials and forestry company representatives explain their own view of the land's use. The film tracks how clear-cutting has stripped the forests the Algonquin depend on, leaving hunting grounds thinner every year, and sets that damage against a legal record showing no treaty ever transferred the territory outright. It is a quiet, angry accounting of what happened to a nation the rest of Canada mostly forgot to notice.