Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus, known online as The Minimalists, travel across the United States on a book tour, and the film uses their stops as a frame for a wider argument about consumer culture. Interviews stack up with architects, environmentalists, economists, and everyday people who have stripped their lives down to fewer possessions, including a tiny-house owner and a former Wall Street trader who walked away from a six-figure salary. The film moves through cramped storage units, big-box retail floors, and sparse apartments to make its point visually rather than just verbally: more square footage and more stuff have not made people happier. Segments on advertising's engineering of desire and the environmental cost of disposable goods sit alongside personal stories of debt, burnout, and divorce tied back to overconsumption. Millburn and Nicodemus keep returning as narrators and subjects both, using their own friendship and career choices as the through-line. It ends less as a set of rules for owning less and more as an invitation to ask what all the stuff was actually for.