In essence, we’re just a conceited, naked ape. In our minds we’re some sort of “divine legend” We can walk around the earth deciding who will live and who will die and what will be destroyed and what will be saved.

The power of the film comes, not from any particular radicalism that Lamya shows in her work … but by showing the counterpoint of her “normal” life in Paris with the horrors of environmental vandalism around the world.