As we go through our day to day life, do we default to our natural setting of thinking that every little inconvenience is only happening to us? Or do we choose to acknowledge that we are in fact not the center of the world. That some of the people around us might be going through a struggle much harder than our own. David Foster Wallace explores this choice in This is Water.

Two teenagers, David and Hugo, meet by chance on a canoe ride in the Amazon. This documentary follows their lives as David begins a fair-trade certification system for oil production companies to help with the oil-waste problem in the Ecuadorian Amazon, while Hugo gets an American education that will allow him to return to his homelands as a leader.