Nearly three million people live under gang rule in Port-au-Prince, where armed groups now control more than 80% of the city. Filmmakers spend two weeks in and around the Haitian capital, interviewing residents trapped between crossfire and collapsing institutions. Gang spokesman Jimmy Cherizier, known as Barbecue, speaks from his stronghold in the lower slums, declaring that his alliance of gangs, Viv Ansanm, will keep fighting until it gets a seat at the negotiating table. The film traces how this coalition turned its firepower on the state, forcing Prime Minister Ariel Henry to resign while abroad in March 2024, and how gangs now control the seafront and the ports that Haiti depends on for more than half its food imports. Interviewees describe how wealthy business elites originally hired these armed groups to attack rivals and intimidate competitors, only for the gangs to grow more organized and turn against their former patrons. In the shantytowns where the crisis is worst, residents explain why they stay despite the killings and kidnappings around them.