Brazil wins the right to host the 2014 World Cup in 2007, a decision that reads as a national celebration until the bills come due. VICE News travels the country as the government pours an estimated $14 billion into stadiums and security, making it the most expensive World Cup ever staged, while public transit, schools, and hospitals stay underfunded. Footage from June 2013 shows the protests that follow, crowds filling city streets over corruption and misplaced priorities, met by riot police and military units deployed in force. The film keeps returning to that standoff through the run-up to the tournament, as demonstrations continue even as international teams arrive and the games begin. Interviews and street footage capture ordinary Brazilians explaining what they want from their government, and the anger at seeing tax money spent on soccer venues instead of the services they lack. The result is a look at a country hosting a global spectacle while its own population argues, loudly and in the streets, about what that spectacle is actually costing them.