Tourism is rapidly exploding in Easter Island, the most remote island in the Pacific. This provokes tensions between their tradicional way of life and the values of progress. Groups of young men called yorgos have returned to live as their ancestors did. Their presence and actions however are not without conflict.

In the outskirts of Bogota a family survives of recycling of lefts over that the city produces and upbringing a few animals. They dream of a house with running water and electricity, but family disputes will make it harder for them to progress.

Drawing upon the thinking and analyses of renowned intellectuals, this documentary sketches a portrait of neo-liberal ideology and examines the various mechanisms used to impose its dictates throughout the world.

One of the world's largest dams, Ralco, on the river Biobío in Chile, opened in 2004 after numerous clashes with the Mapuche people. The land of this ancient indigenous community has been flooded by Endesa, the Spanish multinational company.