Kevin Mitnick spends nearly five years in prison without a bail hearing, accused by prosecutors and tabloid coverage of causing millions of dollars in damage and breaking into NORAD, charges the film sets out to verify against the actual record. Made by the 2600 hacker collective, it tracks the "Free Kevin" movement as it forms in response to Hollywood's plan to dramatize Mitnick's arrest based on Tsutomu Shimomura's account, and follows activists on a cross-country trip to confront the people who built the public case against him, including a doorstep visit to Shimomura himself. Interviews with Mitnick's mother, friends, defense lawyers, and civil liberties advocates lay out how a media narrative and a prosecution reinforced each other with little pushback. The film also lingers on the hacker scene Mitnick came from, where curiosity about phone systems and computers routinely ended in federal indictments. It won the Audience Award for Documentaries at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival in 2002.