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Sorina lives in a slum in Manila with her six children. They have barely survived cholera. Yet Sorina cannot afford bottled mineral water. Manila, the metropolis of the Philippines has privatised the water-supply and thus given large international companies access to it. The prices exploded and the quality sank. Germany is not threatened by this type of water chaos. However, more and more local authority districts are selling their water to large, private water suppliers. Berlin, for example, allowed half of its water-supply to be sold for 1.7 billion Euros. All the same, in many cities resistance to the sell-out of good water is growing. Water is a leading topic in the discussion about globalisation. Opponents of privatisation demand that drinking water remain under public control, because it is a basis of life. Nevertheless, mineral water is a boom product. Germans alone drink more than 120 litres of Evian or Gerolsteiner per year, rather than cheap water from the tap, and gladly pay hundred fold for it. Bottled water is a product with a lucrative profit margin, especially in fast-developing nations, where the water-supply is unable to provide people with drinking water. The documentary examines the business of water, enquires about the protagonists, their interests and the consequences of privatisation for the clients.