Wealth inequality in the United States is the film's target, and it traces the gap to a single moment: the early 1970s decision to sever the dollar from the gold standard. The film argues that this shift let Washington and the Federal Reserve create money without limit, funding wars, bailouts, and handouts while quietly moving wealth from wage-earners to a small financial elite. It walks through decades of policy and banking history to build the case that the middle class, not just individual households, is being hollowed out, and warns that no nation has stayed a superpower without one. The argument culminates in a specific remedy: a petition drive urging the government to reinstate the gold standard, which the filmmakers present as the fix for the inequality they describe. There is no independent economist or counterargument on screen; this is advocacy structured as history, built to move viewers from diagnosis straight to a prescribed political action rather than to weigh competing explanations for the wealth gap.