An eco-village appears on a disused stretch of land in West London, and filmmaker Dean Puckett gives up his flat and his job to move in and film the people living there. Shot over three years in the aftermath of the 2008 banking collapse, the film follows the settlement's residents as they clash with police and property owners, then relocates its cameras to Parliament Square when a related group of activists, homeless people, and self-described visionaries occupies the space outside Westminster to form Democracy Village. Puckett stays close to individuals rather than the movement's slogans, capturing arguments within the camps as often as confrontations with authorities outside them, including disputes over drugs, leadership, and what the occupation is actually for. The two experiments rise and eventually fall, and the film tracks both without smoothing over the mess in between. It works as a record of a specific moment in British activism, when economic collapse pushed a loose, quarrelsome group of people to try building an alternative to consumer society in the middle of the capital.