Max Boden, an ingenuitive desert naturalist, is trying to stop the construction of a copper mine on the outskirts of 1939 Tucson, Arizona. Through a series of arduously comical trials, Max learns to use a small motion picture camera to capture images of the unique local flora and fauna that would be destroyed by the mine.

Andrew Bergmann
as Max Boden

Christopher Lukas
as Otto Boden

Blanche Baker
as Evelyn Boden

Joanna Foster Wilson
as Margie Williams

Robin Reiser
as Ellie McFarland

Jason Brenizer
as Tom Fitzgerald / Radio / Newsreel Voices

David C. Hayes
as Sam Cotrone

William Hubbard
as Richard Thurman

William Killian
as Stranger

Gregory Sweet
as Victor Randolph