Michael DeGroote built a fortune in Canada as a philanthropist and entrepreneur before he sank millions into a plan to open casinos in the Caribbean. The fifth estate and the Globe and Mail spend a year digging into what happened next: DeGroote's venture draws in opportunistic investors and, eventually, a Mafia godfather, and the deal curdles into death threats and talk of revenge against him. Reporters trace how a legitimate businessman ends up doing business alongside organized crime figures in an offshore gambling market with little oversight, and interviews lay out the pressure DeGroote comes under once he tries to extricate himself. The film sticks close to the paper trail and the investigators' own findings rather than dramatizing the threats, treating DeGroote's case as a warning about how easily large sums of money in an unregulated casino industry can attract people who do not negotiate. It is a joint CBC and Globe and Mail investigation, and the reporting itself, not just the story it uncovers, is part of what is on screen.