Inspired by the incendiary bestseller, which exposed the hidden facts behind America's fast food industry, Linklater's film traces the birth of an everyday, ordinary burger through a chain of interlocked human stories; a hopeful young immigrant couple, who cross the border to work in a perilous meat-packing plant, a teen clerk, who dreams of life beyond the counter, and a corporate marketing whiz, who is shocked to discover that his latest burger invention, "The Big One", is literally full of sh*t. As the film traverses from pristine barbeque smoke labs to the volatile US/Mexican border, it unveils a provocative portrait of all the yearning, ambition, corruption and hope that lies inside what should just be a very occasional guilty pleasure between breakfast and dinner. A thought provoking dish, but the book is far more substantial.