An uncompromising exposé of how aid and wildlife agencies have bought, and exploited, the myth of the Kalahari san as happy children of nature, content to collect berries and track game as their forebears have done for millennia. Marshall documents repeated efforts by the Ju/’hoansi in north-eastern Namibia to convince donor and government representatives that their only hope of survival today lies in growing food and keeping cattle. Persuaded by others that they will reap enormous financial rewards from trophy hunters, tourists and film crews, the community agrees to establish a nature conservancy. Instead, the Ju/’hoansi receive a pittance while their preferred livelihood of farming is destroyed. Committed documentary-making of the highest order.