Filmmaker Bart Sibrel builds his case that the Apollo moon landings were faked, leaning hardest on the Van Allen radiation belts that surround Earth, which he argues no crewed spacecraft of the era could have survived passing through. The film works through NASA footage, mission photographs, and archival interview clips with Apollo astronauts, scrutinizing inconsistencies in shadows, lighting, and camera work that Sibrel presents as evidence of soundstage filming rather than lunar footage. He sets the missions against the pressures of the Cold War space race with the Soviet Union, framing the moon landing as a propaganda necessity rather than an engineering achievement, and revisits Sputnik-era anxieties to explain why NASA and the US government would have had motive to fabricate the footage. Sibrel narrates directly, walking through his objections point by point rather than staging dramatic reenactments. Whether or not the argument persuades, the film lays out the moon-hoax case in the terms its most prominent advocate actually uses.