How to Blow Up a Pipeline

“This is an act of self defense.”

Xochitl (Ariela Barer) wants a way to fight the oil industry that goes beyond petitions and marches, so she gathers a small crew of young activists to sabotage a pipeline. Daniel Goldhaber builds the film around the preparation, showing each person arriving with their own grievance and their own reason to be there. Xochitl and Theo (Sasha Lane) hold the group together, and the trust between them is the thing the whole plan rests on.