The documentary sits in the work of Samarendra Das alongside his academic book, co-authored with Felix Padel, Out of This Earth: East India Adivasis and the Aluminium Cartel (to which it also provides the image on the cover).
Interviewees discuss the impact on their lives of bauxite mining by a number of companies (among them Vedanta Resources) that began in the 1990s, and their resistance to these activities.
[3] In the assessment of Kalpana Wilson, 'the film does not make claims to present an ‘unbiased’ view of events; on the contrary, it is an example of politically committed filmmaking seeking to produce work which can be widely used as a tool in the struggle.
Meanwhile, the documentary differs from some other media coverage of the struggle over mining in the Niyamgiri hills in avoiding stereotyping the Adivasi people involved as noble savages.
[5] The movement that the movie chronicles succeeded in stopping Vedanta's bauxite mining in the Niyamgiri hills in 2013, causing the firm to lose up to $10 billion (US) in revenue.