Director Chris Halligan returns to the American Midwest on a roadtrip that reveals more than amber waves of grain – a scorching methamphetamine epidemic is destroying the lives of his friends and the safe communities he grew up in.

Just across the Missouri River from Omaha is Glenwood, Iowa, which, on the surface, seems like any other small Midwestern town. Siblings Brian and Sarah Sell, Glenwood natives from a family of community leaders, never dreamed that methamphetamines would have an effect on their family. No one imagines their mother could become a junkie.

But then few people recognized what was coming. Arriving in the Midwest in the early 1990’s and cooked in clandestine labs in abandoned farmhouses, meth slid in unnoticed and quickly took a firm grip on middle class society.

Interviews with sheriffs, judges, and congressmen reveal that in the midst of the surging meth problem, the federal government, preoccupied with fighting marijuana, is cutting funding and leaving local law enforcement ill-equiped to fight the epidemic. Meanwhile, addicted mothers and meth dealers paint a picture of overflowing prison systems, a revolving door of addiction, and horrific child abuse.

Halligan follows the trail of the new wave of meth that flows from super labs in Mexico north over the border and moves along the U.S. interstate system into rural America. A DEA chief shines a light on the ultra-violent Juarez drug cartel operating just across the Mexican border that is raking in millions supplying meth for America’s growing addiction.

Methamerica’s sharp focus pulls from individual portraits of crystal meth abuse to broad scope insight into the national meth epidemic, revealing that meth, the fast food of drugs, is eating America alive.