In this film, we visit families that bought their homes in small villages decades ago - when the Danish countryside was home to many family farms rearing small herds of livestock. But times have changed and they now find themselves surrounded by large industrial pig factories, which ruin their lives. Their houses are impossible to sell. Their social life has gone out of the window due to the unrelenting stench seeping out of the factories.
Over 200 chemical substances are emitted from the stables and it is making the neighbours sick, with numerous peer reviewed studies backing up these claims that there is an increased risk of contracting respiratory illnesses, diarrhoea, skin diseases, and headaches.
For too long, national governments have ignored the locals. Now is the time to hear their stories.