A documentary of queer lovers Beth Stephens' and Annie Sprinkle's journey from San Francisco to West Virginia to visit Beth's family, marry the Appalachian Mountains, and join the fight against a devastating new coal mining technique, mountain top removal (MTR). While we all use the electricity generated by coal, mountain top removal is little known outside rural West Virginia, one of the most poverty-stricken regions of the United States. This film exposes its social and environmental injustices. It also explores how the destruction of the endangered, bio-diverse Appalachian Mountains carries devastating global consequences for us all. What would happen if we changed our relationship from Earth as mother to Earth as lover? How can gay, lesbian, bi, trans, inter, fairy, and even ecosexual communities find creative ways to engage environmental justice? By juxtaposing sadness/ humor, love/ greed, and beauty/ devastation, the film braids Beth's West Virginia coalfield hillbilly past with the promise of ecosexuality in order to deploy new strategies of resistance and make the fight against environmental destruction more sexy, fun, hopeful and diverse. It's a compelling story of small communities facing annihilation for short-term corporate gain, but it's also a story about hope, queer love, and how we find communal strength to resist and fight for justice in our own ways.
—Beth Stephens