A network of billion-dollar foundations, the film argues, has spent a century steering public education toward a collectivist ideology, and this is the first installment of a planned three-part series making that case. The central witness is Charlotte Iserbyt, fired from her post as Senior Policy Advisor at the U.S. Department of Education in 1982 after releasing classified documents on using computers to psychologically shape students. The film traces her paper trail back through a congressional investigation into major foundations launched in the 1950s, and further back to Edward Bernays, who in 1928 laid out how public opinion could be deliberately engineered. It then follows the same funding and philosophy forward into today's classrooms, arguing that Canadian schools now show the same patterns as their American counterparts, and onto college campuses where it says these foundations back radical and authoritarian ideologies. The argument runs entirely on one side, built from documents and testimony assembled to support a single thesis about how education systems are captured from above.