Occupy Wall Street began in September 2011 when protesters set up camp in Zuccotti Park, and this film follows the movement as it spread to cities across the United States. Director Dennis Trainor Jr. talks to organizers and participants at general assemblies, on the streets during marches, and inside the encampments themselves, tracing how a leaderless protest against income inequality and corporate influence in politics organized itself without formal leaders or a single set of demands. The film stays close to the people doing the work: the consensus process, the makeshift kitchens and libraries, the arguments over strategy and message. It treats the movement as a live experiment in direct democracy rather than a finished political program, watching it try to answer a basic question: what does it look like when a large group of strangers governs itself in real time, in public, under police pressure.