In October 2009, Javier Chocobar, a member of the Indigenous Chuschagasta community in Argentina's Tucumán province, was shot and killed while defending his community's land against a landowner and two former policemen. The killing was captured on video; the trial did not begin for another nine years. In her first documentary, Lucrecia Martel (Zama, The Headless Woman) builds from this single act of violence a sweeping inquiry into land, language, and the colonial bureaucracy that turns paper into a weapon. Moving between courtroom footage, the testimonies and photographic archives of the Chuschagasta, and vertiginous aerial views of the contested terrain, Martel — working on the film for some fourteen years — pays cinematic tribute to people whom official history has tried to erase. A meditation on who the land belongs to, and on who gets believed.