The film was to be a hybrid of three stories: a documentary about the Rio carnival, the fable of a boy and a bull, and the dramatized account of a protest, in which four Brazilian fishermen sailed along the coast to Rio to demand justice from the President.

NEWYORKER: It��s All True

John McTiernan and his wife Donna Dubrow, fresh from Los Angeles and the film industry, threw themselves into restoration, breeding new livestock (a lean-meat hybrid called a Beefalo), replanting tired fields, building reservoirs, and repairing old irrigation ditches.

ECONOMIST: Western water rights