“A rare work of art that manages to look forward precisely by looking backward, putting boundaries around the past only to make it part of the future.”
—Film Inquiry

“Filmmaker Elaine McMillion Sheldon locates the beauty, potentiality and sorrow of the region to its surrounding mountain ranges, from forested rolling hills to the mounds of coal on river barges.”
—The New York Times

Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Elaine McMillion Sheldon reshapes the boundaries of documentary filmmaking in a spectacularly beautiful and deeply moving immersion into Central Appalachia where coal is not just a resource but a way of life.