Ferguson, Missouri, in the months after a police officer shot and killed Michael Brown in August 2014 and a grand jury declined to indict him. Filmmaker Orlando de Guzman turns his camera on residents who lived through the unrest that followed, moving past the televised images of fires and looting to the grievances underneath them. In a school gymnasium, Black mothers and fathers confront a mostly white panel of local officials; one mother tells them flatly, "You do not reflect the community that we live in," and asks if they can imagine their own children shot dead. The film lays out the mechanics of that anger: a municipal court system that issues more arrest warrants than the city has residents, most of them to Black people, and fathers who describe being pulled over by police three or more times a month. De Guzman frames Ferguson's protests as part of a wider movement rather than an isolated flashpoint, tracing a direct line from the courtroom and the traffic stop to the crowds in the street.