In the wilderness of remote burnt areas in Canada, every Summer thousands of people gather in search of adventure and quick money: pickers and buyers work side by side searching, picking, carrying and selling morels, the mushrooms that grow one year after a forest fire. Morels are the black gold of the bush, they are extremely expensive on international markets, being not possible to grow them artificially. Along the edges of huge forest fires, hundreds of kilometers far away from any village, gas station and telephone poll, the temporary community of buyers and pickers obeys the same basic laws of society: there’s competition but also solidarity, there’s mutual help but also business. They depend on one another, you can’t think of surviving alone or without someone’s collaboration: this is the rule that creates a model of perfect society, where everybody is aware of freedom and respect. It’s a hard life living out there: pickers come out of the bush black with soot, white with ash and red with their own blood scratched from mosquito bites. Work is hard and you get payed for what you have picked but it all depends on your good luck in finding a good patch. ‘The Mushroom Rush’ follows the extraordinary-ordinary life in three camps during two seasons of picking, into the bush and around the campfire, among bears and black flies.