The 2015 UN Climate Change Summit in Paris opens the film, and the filmmakers argue that the agreement world leaders signed there does little to slow global warming. Made by the activist group 350.org, the film turns instead to people fighting fossil fuel expansion directly. In the Philippines, Lidy Nacpil of the Philippine Movement for Climate Justice organizes citizens against a proposed coal plant in Batangas projected to emit over 7 million metric tons of CO2 a year, drawing a line to the 1986 protests that ousted Ferdinand Marcos. In Canada, residents along an expanding pipeline route refuse corporate payouts and organize against it instead. Scientists and scholars appear between these profiles to explain the economic costs of environmental disaster and the historical record of civil disobedience as a tool for political change. The film moves between these global case studies to make its case that citizen action, not summit diplomacy, is where climate policy actually gets contested.