Director Edouard Bergeon’s father became another of the 400 to 800 French farmers who commit suicide every year, suffering from despair at the crushing debt burdens suffered by modern farmers at the same time that their marginal profits continue to erode…

There are no official figures detailing the number of farmers who lose their lives every year to suicide. One such individual was filmmaker Edouard Bergeon’s father. This searing documentary is an indictment of commercial farming’s ruinous practices, and a powerful reckoning with family trauma.