VICE News correspondents travel to Xinjiang to investigate China's mass detention of Uighur Muslims, working around government minders and surveillance to reach families who have lost relatives to what Chinese officials call "re-education" centers. Interviews with Uighurs living in exile in Turkey describe relatives disappearing into a network of camps, and the film uses satellite imagery and leaked documents to show the scale of construction across the region, including facilities ringed with barbed wire and guard towers. Reporters attempt to visit camp sites directly and are turned away or followed, footage that ends up as evidence of the state's effort to control the narrative. Government officials offer scripted denials, insisting the camps are vocational schools, while former detainees and family members describe forced political indoctrination, surveillance of daily life, and pressure to abandon religious practice. The film lays out the mechanics of a surveillance state built specifically around one ethnic and religious minority, and lets the gap between official claims and testimony speak for itself.