For seventy-five seconds, Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, shook-when it stopped, several hundred thousand Haitians had died and a million more were left homeless. Quickly following the 2010 quake, representatives from prominent nations, along with a swarm of NGOs, rushed to this devastated island with the promise of massive humanitarian aid. An aid agency, the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC), cochaired by Bill Clinton and Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive, was created to orchestrate the overall reconstruction. The promised $11 billion was seen as a hopeful trove to underwrite not just the reconstruction but the reinvention of this crippled nation. And then the spectacle of deliverance arose, with the fanfare of Hollywood celebrities like George Clooney and Angelina Jolie, the contradictory agendas of well-meaning NGOs, and the puffery of the politically inclined aid administrators. When Haitian-born documentarian Raoul Peck arrived in 2011, little had changed: hundreds of thousands remained in temporary housing like the calamitous Camp Corail-Cesselesse, fresh water was scarce, millions of cubic feet of debris still smothered the city, and a miniscule part of the promised funds had been distributed. Schooled in a style of progressive critique, Peck's exposé gives us an irate perch from which to view the second unfolding disaster, that of the relief effort. Fatal Assistance shows how a lack of trust in the Haitians themselves turned remedies into impositions, often wrongly directed, and how misguided solutions, such as importing water rather than reopening a local bottling plant, became half measures that slowed the recovery. From the hygienic halls of the Recovery Commission to aid workers digging ditches for sanitation, this bold documentary shows us the collateral costs of doing good. Standing on shaky ground, Peck finally asks, “Who will save us from our saviors?”