This is a film about a technique that could save more carbon emissions annually than
all global aviation combined. It is a film about one of the biggest contributors to tropical deforestation
and global warming: slash and burn agriculture. The film follows British scientist Mike Hands, who has
laboured for 25 years to perfect a sustainable farming technique to replace slash and burn farming in
equatorial rainforests.

And he's found it.

But developing the technique was only the start. Now he needs to persuade governments, agencies
and, more importantly than anyone else, the farmers to all adopt it.

This is a film about life and death struggles. About the struggle of Mike Hands to get people to
understand his revolutionary technique. It's about the life and death struggle of the impoverished
farmers who can ill afford to take the risk of adopting a new farming method. It's a film about our
driving need to change what's happening to the remaining rainforests of the planet, and about the
forces that may prevent that change from happening.

Mike Hands has the solution, but is the world ready to listen?

We follow three principal characters: Mike Hands, and two Honduran farmers, Faustino and Aladino.
One has adopted and embraced Mike's technique, the other is waiting to be convinced and drive the
change forward. Filmed over 3 years in Honduras and the UK, the film presents a historic opportunity
to address one of the most urgent issues of the present day. It parallels the farmer's struggles with Mike
Hands attempts to get heavyweight political backing, as he tries to get his technique onto the agenda
at the 2009 Copenhagen Summit. But politics has its own way of interfering with the science.

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