Using the perspective and visual style she showed in 2008’s Oscar-nominated Trouble the Water, Kimberly Roberts connects her personal experience and that of her community with the wave of development and recovery projects that have “flooded” the area since 2005, leaving behind a new kind of emotional devastation: exploitation, broken promises, and neglect. From the empty lots of the citizens that haven’t returned, to a new type of visitor, the Disaster Tourist, these projects are focused on everything except bringing sustainable social and economic progress to the citizens of New Orleans.