Steven E. Jones spent most of his career known for research into muon-catalyzed fusion, a respected physicist at Brigham Young University. In 2005 he went public with a different claim: that the collapse of the World Trade Center towers looked less like fire-induced structural failure and more like a controlled demolition, with explosives pre-positioned in the buildings. The film follows what happened next. Colleagues turn on him, hate mail and threats arrive, and BYU places him on paid leave in late 2006; he retires that October 20 with the title of Professor Emeritus rather than continue fighting the university. The American Association of University Professors and the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education both step in, citing the case as a test of academic freedom on a religious university campus. The film stays close to Jones through interviews and the fallout of that single year, tracking a scientist's reputation and livelihood coming apart over a hypothesis he refuses to withdraw.