In November 2012, seventeen-year-old Jordan Davis was shot dead at a Jacksonville, Florida gas station after Michael Dunn complained about the volume of music coming from the SUV Davis was riding in with three friends. Dunn fired ten times into the vehicle, then drove off. Director Marc Silver builds the film around courtroom audio and video from Dunn's trial, interspersed with interviews with Davis's parents, Ron Davis and Lucia McBath, and with the surviving teenagers who were in the car that night. The film lets the 911 calls, police interrogation footage, and jury deliberations carry much of the story, tracking how a dispute over rap music turned into a killing and how Florida's self-defense laws shaped the legal fight that followed. McBath's transformation from grieving mother into a public voice against gun violence runs through the back half of the film. It ends without tidy resolution, sitting instead with a family's grief and a verdict that satisfied almost no one completely.