On August 28, 1963, the day of the March on Washington, seven prominent figures sit down together to talk about what they have just witnessed. Harry Belafonte, Marlon Brando, Charlton Heston, Sidney Poitier, director Joseph Mankiewicz, writer James Baldwin, and CBS correspondent David Schoenbrun take turns at the table, each speaking from a different vantage point on the civil rights movement, from Baldwin's writing on race to Heston's and Brando's public activism to Schoenbrun's work as a journalist covering the event. The camera holds mostly on faces and hands as the group works through what the march means for the country and what role, if any, entertainers and broadcasters should play in a political moment like this one. Produced by the U.S. Information Agency for distribution abroad, the film was intended to show an international audience how American public figures were reckoning with the movement in real time, and it plays now as an unscripted record of seven people thinking aloud on the day itself.