For decades, filmmaker Vincent Carelli kept returning to his friend, the late “Captain” Krohokrenhum, the leader of the Gavião indigenous people in the Brazilian Amazon. As a white outsider, it took Carelli time to gain Krohokrenhum’s trust. Their long-term relationship resulted in this multifaceted and layered portrait of Krohokrenhum’s life and suffering under the kupen-the Gavião word for the white settlers-from the deadly diseases the settlers brought with them to the battles that flared with neighboring peoples under pressure from their rapidly shrinking territory.