When a dam burst at a Romanian goldmine in early 2000, more than 100,000 tons of cyanide was released into the Tisza River, devastating its ecology as well as the livelihoods of subsistence fishermen in neighbouring Hungary. This spill created Central Europe's worst ecological disaster since Chernobyl. INHERITANCE: A FISHERMAN'S STORY film follows fisherman Balazs Meszaros as he struggles with the effects of the disaster on his own community, and attempts to confront the corporate forces behind the mining operation.