Set in Canary Wharf, one of the financial districts of London the film also tries to capture the contrast between rich and poor, between two different and yet parallel worlds where the two worlds collide inside an office where an insurance claim is being processed.
The interviews seen in the film and in black and white are part of the Burning from the Inside project where the writer and director Nick Peterson interviewed 101 members of an Nigerian tribe/ethnic nation based in the Niger Delta, the oil region between 1999 and 2005.
When the film Burning from the Inside has been briefly released in 2007 Nick Peterson had to move out of London in hiding and even completely disconnect with some of the members and friends from the Nigerian tribe he interviewed for fear of his life. As the film and project focused mainly but not entirely on the problems of the women in Africa and Nigeria not to mention the "gay" problem completely ignored in Africa, some of the straight male members issued many threats and even death threats. Back in 1999 the oil companies based in the region were not to keen on the project either but in time have accepted the project as historical rather than politically motivated. Again in time many unhappy men from the region moved on from their original reactions.
In the story the main character John Pediot has only 24 hours to investigate an insurance claim for a British insurance company about the death of six oil workers on an oil rig off the coast of Africa. This "24 hours sequence" is displayed with a timeline background in the shape of time lapse sequence footage of Canary Wharf in London from dark, sunset to daylight.
The "Massacre" scene is where the oil workers have been slaughtered and is displayed in stills from small to big then recovering the screen, hitting the viewer in the face emphasizing the extreme violence emanating from this part of the world.