The Rocky Mountain News prints its last edition on February 27, 2009, closing out 149 years and 311 days of continuous publication in Denver. The film follows the newspaper's final days through the staff who put it together, tracking how a paper that once won Pulitzers and covered Colorado through wars, booms, and busts got squeezed out by falling circulation, vanishing ad revenue, and the shift of readers to the internet. The last front page carries a single line, "Goodbye, Colorado," and the issue inside runs a retrospective of the paper's history alongside messages from readers and local leaders. Rather than treating the closure as an isolated event, the film uses it as a case study in what happened to American newspapers generally in the 2000s, with the Rocky Mountain News standing in for dozens of papers that folded in the years after. It closes on the newsroom itself, emptied out, as one more local paper becomes one more casualty of a media landscape it no longer fit.