Cottonland demystifies the world of the addict and explores the reality of economic and drug dependence in Nova Scotia's depressed coal towns of Cape Breton. Celebrated photographer and Filmmaker, Nance Ackerman describes the human cost and the pain caused by the prescription drug, Oxy Contin, with the help of collaborating Director, Eddie Buchanan, an ex addict who has come out the other side of addiction and despair.