Taking its title from the tactical protest strategy of the same name, the film is a modern portrait of one of the most important militant activist communities in France.
It is a contemporary portrait of one of the most notorious and militant activist groups in France: a rural community of 150 people who fought off an international airport project in 2018, established a self-governing zone from 2012 to 2018, endured several brutal attempts of eviction by the French authorities and gave rise to a new environmental movement in 2021.
The film uses a cooperative and immersive method to capture the daily lives of a varied network of activists, squatters, anarchists, farmers and those branded by the government as “eco-terrorists”.
[19] Fabien Lemercier reviewing the film at Berlinale for Cineuropa wrote, "Ben Russell and Guillaume Cailleau immerse themselves in the Zadist movement based in Notre-Dame-des-Landes for a hypnotic documentary featuring radical artist parties."
Concluding Lemercier wrote, "it’s first and foremost an original artistic gesture which is perfectly in keeping with its subject-matter, like a lookout creating their own space-time.