Geneva's UN Human Rights Council, created in 2006 as successor to a discredited predecessor, is the subject here, and the film traces how it got there. It opens with the 2001 Durban Conference in South Africa, where NGOs expecting a routine UN meeting on racism instead watched anti-Semitic slogans and flyers praising Hitler circulate, a week before September 11. Directors Caroline Fourest and Fiametta Venner follow what happened after Asian and African states won a majority on the new Council while the United States, absorbed in its war on terror, disengaged from UN process. Robert Badinter, who abolished the death penalty in France, appears on camera calling human rights once again "an ideological battlefield." The film sets that claim against the 1948 Universal Declaration Eleanor Roosevelt helped broker, and against a live debate inside the Council over banning "defamation of religion," which supporters call anti-racism and critics call cover for censorship. It closes on the threatened American and European boycott of the Second Durban Conference.