Ludwig von Mises spends six decades arguing that socialism cannot work, that central banking causes the recessions it claims to prevent, and that a gold standard is honest money, and this film traces that career from Vienna through American exile. Archival footage and interviews cover the Nazis burning his books, the blacklisting he faced from leftist economics departments in the United States, and an episode in which he talks a Bolshevik prime minister out of adopting Communism. Students and admirers appear on camera to describe his influence, among them Murray Rothbard, Ron Paul, Bettina Greaves, M. Stanton Evans, Mary Peterson, Joseph Sobran, and Yuri Maltsev, while Lenin and Hitler stand in as the ideological opponents his work was aimed against. The film credits him with 25 books and hundreds of articles written across more than sixty years of teaching, framing his laissez-faire economics as an argument for why free markets, not central planning, match the political freedoms of Western civilization. It is a biography built almost entirely from the testimony of people who studied under him or carried his ideas forward.