Barbie is a single mother in Philadelphia who once qualified for food stamps, lost them when she got a slightly better job, and still can't reliably feed her kids. Rosie is a fifth-grader in Collbran, Colorado, who sometimes goes to school hungry and struggles to concentrate in class. Tremonica is a second-grader in Mississippi whose diet of cheap, processed food has left her with asthma and other health problems. The film follows these three alongside food bank workers, teachers, and researchers including Marion Nestle and Raj Patel, tracing how 50 million Americans ended up without reliable access to food in the richest country in the world. Actor Jeff Bridges, who has pushed anti-hunger legislation since the 1980s through his End Hunger Network, appears throughout, arguing that charity alone cannot fix a problem this large. The film lays out how farm subsidies favor corn and soy over fresh produce, how food deserts leave families dependent on gas stations and dollar stores, and how the 2008 recession pushed hunger from a rural and urban problem into suburban homes as well.