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This film is a controversial expose of the travesty of justice that takes place around the shores of Florida's Lake Okeechobee - a situation that, until the film's release, has been one of America's best-kept secrets. There, for six months a year, over 10,000 men from Jamaica and other Caribbean islands perform the brutal task of cutting sugar cane by hand-a job so dangerous and low-paying that Americans refuse to do it.

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