It is 2018 when I meet Erik Grimland at a convention organized by a pro-hunting lobby in Texas. After several years spent documenting wildlife conservation in Africa, I wanted to open a new chapter on the exotic animal trade industry in the United States. In order to understand this complex world where tradition, consumerism and virilism collide, I have followed Erik Grimland, his family, his friends and colleagues for more than four years. Hunter since childhood, son of a pro-hunting father and an anti-hunting mother, ex-policeman reconverted in professional hunting and taxidermy, this Texanand cowboy at heart opened the doors of a world often closed to the media; the doors of this rural, southern and angry America on which Donald Trump built his victory in 2016. This work is not a plea for hunting. It is not an advocate for hunting, nor is it a critic of it. It humbly tries to understand the complexities of this practice. And to reveal the nuances: the truths as well as the contradictions. This story raises several questions: can we kill an animal to save 1000 others? Can hunting be useful in the effort to conserve wildlife and the environment? Should it be part of it? And if so, how? The economy of trophy hunting in Africa and the United States is colossal, an industry based, also, on entertainment. But where does the money really go? And how is it used by institutions? Sugar Moon is the schizophrenic story of the US exotic game hunting industry. An intimate protrait oof Trump's America.