When an apex predator is in decline, so too is its ecosystem.  Investigative journalism exposes ongoing corruption in the US Congress, falsely claiming that four federally owned dams are crucial to the Northwest power grid, while hiding the fact that an ecosystem collapse is in progress.  At stake are salmon runs--once among the greatest runs in the world--and the salmon-eating Orcas facing imminent extinction. 

Over the past fifty years, four federal dams impounding the Lower Snake River in Washington State have been identified as the root cause for the demise of all of Idaho’s anadromous fish.  The film exposes the propaganda and deceit propagated by the Army Corps of Engineers, Bonneville Power Administration, and certain members of Congress who falsely claim the dams are crucial for the regional economy and power grid.