A mock documentary alternates between two talking heads in a white studio room: a moustached village man in a grey blazer and white headwrap, and a wild-haired scientist in a lab coat with a plaster taped across his nose gesturing over a bench of test tubes and flasks. Their explanations are intercut with field b-roll of a man scything grass and building a haystack, a pole being stirred in a bucket, water poured from a glass, and grainy black-and-white footage of a shovel in stony ground.