A documentary following three months out of the two-year making of Werner Herzog's 1982 Fitzcarraldo — a film for which the German director underpaid Indigenous peoples in the Peruvian Amazon an average of $2/day to raze swathes of their forest and to deliver the film's epic feat of hauling a 300-ton steam ship up a hill. The film caused tensions among different and at times rivalling Indigenous groups, who were crowded together in makeshift housing for a prologued period. Several were injured and at least one died.