The Story:
In the serene Upper Palatinate region of West Germany, bordering Czechoslovakia, the fateful announcement in February 1985 of a massive nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in Wackersdorf shatters the peaceful lives of loyal citizens—conservative farmers, elderly residents, and even police officers—who suddenly find their idyllic homeland threatened by ecological devastation and atomic ambition.
As construction looms, ordinary folk transform into fervent radicals, their voices rising in a tide of civil resistance against powerful industrial and political forces; interviews and raw footage reveal the “little man’s” unyielding stand, while the community fractures in a social fission mirroring the nuclear peril, pitting supporters of progress against guardians of the land.
Witness the pulse-pounding chronicle of defiance that halted one of history’s grand nuclear schemes, a testament to the indomitable spirit of the people in this riveting documentary that ignites the soul with hope and urgency.
