If it's true that we are what we eat, then how do we even know who we are? Don Anderson is trying to balance his search for the truth with an apparent desire not to do anything that might hurt his career. Raul and Sylvia, having crossed the border illegally, take up dangerous, stomach-turning jobs at the meat-processing plant. Amber is a teenage burger-slinger who wants to both change the world and get out of town. Everyone has something to say, but hard ethical choices are set down by the logic of 21st-century consumer capitalism.

Based on the book: Fast food nation, the dark side of the all-American meal / by Eric Schlosser. Special features: Audio commentary by director Richard Linklater and author/screenwriter Eric Schlosser; Manufacturing 'Fast Food Nation' [making of featurette] (56 min.); Photo gallery [slide show]; The meatrix (4 min.); The meatrix II (5 min.); The meatrix II 1/2 (3 min.); The backwards hamburger (3 min.) [4 animated shorts].