The poetic documentary short film almost beneath your reach unfolds at a slow, attentive pace, tracing the processes of oil shale extraction in Estonia. Through fragments of recorded voices, it reflects on the mineral’s legacy across industrial, political, and social dimensions. Subtly, the film invokes a ghostly presence to evoke the influence of what has already disappeared—closed mines, devastated ecologies, and abandoned villages that continue to shape the present. Oil shale mining in Estonia has a long and complex history. Since the Soviet era, it has functioned as a cornerstone of the national economy, securing energy independence and providing employment for entire regions. Yet this dependency has come at a cost. The landscape bears visible scars: vast excavation sites, polluted soil and water, and ecosystems pushed to their limits. At the same time, the industry has left traces in the lives of workers and communities—marked by labor conditions, economic reliance, and the gradual erosion of local infrastructures as mines shut down. What remains is a terrain haunted by its own past, where absence becomes a persistent form of presence. The project was produced within the framework of the BiP program Re-enchanting the Field, a collaboration between Bauhaus University Weimar (Sound Ecologies and Media Environments), the Estonian Academy of Arts (Master of Craft Studies), Potsdam University of Applied Sciences (Department of Design), and the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Transformation Studies).