Louisiana Story was Flaherty's last film. It studies the life of a shy but carefree 12-year-old in the sunlit waterways and creepered woods of the Louisiana bayous. Suddenly the youth is brought face to face with the outer world of industry when an oil-boring operation is carried out in his neighborhood. Typically, Flaherty keeps rigidly to the boy's-eye view of this operation. There is no question of explaining the social significance of oil in the economy of this wasteland or of the change in the fortunes of the boy's family with whom the contract to carry out the operation is signed. The film begins and ends with the coming and going of the engineers, but these are incidents; the true story is the boy himself and the almost dream-like country in which he lives. From a kaleidoscope of poetic images, of leaves, water, wild life and sunlight, Flaherty creates a contemplative vision of the wonder of life itself.