FORTY MILLION TONNES

A talented sustainability analyst joins an oil company's six-person Environmental Responsibility Division and spends twelve months designing initiatives that are precisely described, genuinely believed in, and cosmically inadequate. Over a year of press releases, board presentations, an award ceremony, a wildfire that destroys the division's flagship reforestation project, and a conference keynote that names the gap between the company's emissions and the team's work, she becomes the most effective member of a division whose effectiveness is measured in documents. The film ends with her at her desk, a new blank document open, the cursor blinking. Both readings of what she does next are consistent with everything that came before.