John Pilger opens with the tourist-brochure Australia of beaches and outback vistas, then drives inland to the region called Utopia in the Northern Territory, where Aboriginal families live with rates of trachoma, overcrowding, and infant mortality found nowhere else in the developed world. Pilger interviews residents, health workers, and government officials, and confronts ministers on camera about funding that never reaches the communities it is meant for. The film traces this back through the massacres and forced removals of Australia's colonial history, and follows the 2007 Northern Territory Intervention, which sent troops and bureaucrats into Aboriginal townships under the banner of child protection while stripping residents of control over their own land and welfare payments. Pilger sets official statements against footage of the conditions they describe, letting the gap between the two make his argument. Interviews with Aboriginal activists and elders carry much of the film's anger, and the closing sections ask why a wealthy nation has allowed this to continue in plain sight for generations.