Papua New Guinea's remote Western Province the landowners are in a complex struggle with a multinational over their rights and their environment. BHP has dumped billions of tonnes of tailings from their Ok Tedi copper mine into the Ok Tedi and Fly River systems since 1987. In 2001, landowners enlisted the support of Australian lawyers, Slater and Gordon to pressure the mine to stick to an earlier commitment to clean up the mine waste from the river. However the legal process took a dramatic turn when BHP decided to 'exit' the mine. BHP offered its fifty two percent share of the Ok Tedi mine to the Papua New Guinea Government as a 'gift', in return demanding a guarantee of total immunity from prosecution by landowners. The company set out on a campaign to get local people to sign their exit documents. Many villagers, their food supply poisoned by mine pollution and dependent on compensation payments, are strongly attracted to BHP's offers of money and community projects. A small group of landowners - the protagonists in the film - are desperately trying to convince local people, lured by the company promises, not to sign their rights away. As pressure builds in the final and secretive stages of BHP's exit negotiations, confusion reins, divisions grow and death threats are reported. Many village leaders - flown in by company helicopters and feted at company expense have, under pressure blindly signed the exit agreement. It's a devastating inheritance for the indigenous landowners.