Every spring, Nazih and Da’ad leave their home in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley and travel into the mountains with their herd of goats, following ancestral routes that have sustained people, animals, and ecosystems for generations. Among the last families to continue this practice, they carry knowledge, labor, and traditions passed down through generations.

Black Gold moves at the pace of the journey, observing the fragile relationship between humans, animals, and land across landscapes reshaped by airstrikes, drought, and economic collapse. As the sounds of daily work mingle with radio reports of rising costs, state neglect, and war, the film offers an intimate portrait of a couple whose labor sustains both their herd and the communities around them, even as the world they know begins to unravel.