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On the violent border between Brazil and Paraguay, a battle between agribusiness and indigenous sovereignty wages. Filmmakers Laura Faerman and Marina Weis outline the clash between lawyer Luana Ruiz - heiress to the contested land and staunch Jair Bolsonaro supporter, and Alenir Ximendes - Guarani-Kaiowá leader, teacher, and activist. A powerful cinematic chronicle of Ximendes’s courageous fight against Ruiz and agribusiness to protect her community, culture, and indigenous lands. The land in dispute is the Ñande Ru Marangatu Indigenous Territory, which has been inhabited by the Guarani-Kaiowá Indigenous people for at least 1500 years. Farmers arrived in the region in the 1940s.