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Six rural American communities are marked as candidates for an unthinkable fate: their land, a burial ground for 77,000 tons of nuclear waste. Against the impassive logic of government analysis and archives, a people’s history of resistance and stewardship emerges through a visceral journey across the landscapes, ecologies, and personal histories of the candidate sites.
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[VdR '25] The film gradually reveals that the selection of several territories in the 1980s for nuclear waste disposal was tinged with racist and colonialist elements, primarily targeting communities already suffering the consequences of contamination or used as a political tool to seize lands belonging to First Nations. The consequence of the choice of these six locations has become a kind of permanent stigma for their inhabitants, which has not only marked their own lives but has also led to a profound economic decline in their communities.