The film grew out of years of research into the Amazon's rubber economy — a history that connects the forests of Brazil to the tires on the streets of Indonesia, to the sneakers sold in European shops. The rubber tire became a vessel for all of this: a material object that carries within it a whole planetary entanglement of extraction, migration, and ecological collapse.
Filmed during two research trips deep into the states of Acre and Mato Grosso, the film was built through genuine encounter. The people who appear are rubber tappers living in a protected reserve, descendants of a political struggle that won them land rights against all odds. Their voices, the sounds of the forest, and the 3D animations of the drifting tire weave together into a kind of waking dream where documentary and fiction breathe the same air.
