To Use a Mountain plot
In 1982, President Ronald Reagan proudly presented a plan to store all of the US's high-level radioactive waste in one place for ten thousand years. This would solve the biggest problem surrounding nuclear energy and nuclear weapons. This theoretical reality plays a significant role in the film's design and pacing. The soulless logic of this policy plan contrasts sharply with the reality of the diverse communities that resisted the nuclear repository's arrival. In the past, they have already faced land expropriation, slavery, nuclear testing, resource extraction, and pollution from industry and agriculture.