For the government and the elite, the Sardar Sarovar dam in western India is a triumph of industrialization and “progress.” For the Adivasis (indigenous people), farmers and fisherfolk living along the Narmada River, it is a disaster. As the dam rises, it has flooded thousands of acres of forest and fertile land, displacing hundreds of thousands of people. Many vow to drown rather than be moved. Combining politics, ethnography, and environmentalism, the film presents anti-dam protesters galvanizing a grassroots movement by walking from village to village, along with beautiful footage of Adivasi rituals and images of the surreal landscape created by the dam: submerged temples, drowned trees.