[2][3] It focuses on the Maoists in Bastar in Chhattisgarh, tribals fighting against industrialists in Niyamgiri in Odisha and protestors acting in memory of the Leftist revolutionary Bhagat Singh in Punjab.
According to the film, the Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh, strongly opposed the Maoist movement labeling them as terrorists and making them his number one priority.
The Maoists fear that the Earth will be taken by Capitalist countries trying to make more money and will eventually leave the Naxalites without a home.
Kak then moves into footage and interviews he found with Police officers recounting details of Maoist attacks as well as victims and their families telling stories of how they or a loved one was treated by the government, throughout the next 20 minutes of the documentary.
She describes him as unarmed and surrounded by police, they proceeded to beat him up, attack him with axes and knives, chop off his limbs and take his child who they have not seen since.
The Indian government is allowing Capitalist companies to mine and start other special projects which lead to the displacement of the tribes and the destruction of their way of life.
In the film Kak includes an audio of the police getting an order to seek out any possible Naxalites and to kill any journalists that come to cover them.
The documentary ends with the people marching together and kids training to join the fight, practicing to shoot in the forests.
[8] In an interview with Red Pepper, Kak talks about why he chose India as his subject for his documentary, saying "In India, the legacy of Gandhi has been conveniently deployed by all sorts of political formations to delegitimise any kind of radical challenge to the form of the state.
And this is a system that has frequently reinvented itself with the passage of time, in order to fit newer forms of social and political mobilisation."
He notes how Kak has been outspoken about the Indian state's allegedly oppressive regime and it's "dodgy affair with capitalism and foreign investment"[12]