Departing from the etymological derivation of both “salary” and “soldier” from “salt”, the film captures the entanglement of economic, military, and geological forces which manifests itself in the figure of the sinkhole. Perforating the shores of the Dead Sea in Israel and Palestine thousands of sinkholes are swallowing the remnants of what used to be a popular beach, a water park, or a settlement, the sinkholes make the land uninhabitable and hazardous. What had once been a natural treasure to attract tourism and investment, is today a dilapidating site erected on unstable grounds. The resulting landscape appears as both visible symptom and active cause of the failure of a colonial project to instrumentalize nature, collapsing together two temporal scales: the micro-histories of settler colonialism and the slow disaster produced by the exhaustion of natural resources.