Synopsis:

Black Gold is an alarming and timely documentary about our obsession with coffee and the damaging consequences this has on the people who produce it. Following the story of coffee from Ethiopian bean to Starbucks' cup, we meet coffee drinkers, tasting experts, baristas, and coffee traders and visit the sweatshop production lines, tasting laboratories, auction houses and roasting plants around the world. The film's main character is Tadesse Meskela, who fights to save his Ethiopian coffee farmers from bankruptcy, taking on not just the coffee industry, but also the world trading system.