Andrej Holm, a sociologist at Berlin's Humboldt University, wakes to armed police pounding on his door. Investigators had been monitoring his academic research and concluded he was probably leading a militant group; he spends thirty days in solitary confinement before being released without charges. His case anchors a film about how CCTV networks, online monitoring, and police drones have turned public surveillance into a growth industry across Western Europe and the United States. London alone has roughly one camera for every fourteen residents, and the footage and data those systems generate increasingly feed counterterrorism investigations, sometimes with consequences like Holm's. At a hacker conference, Jacob Appelbaum tells the audience that freedom from suspicion is the foundation of real freedom, framing the argument the film keeps returning to: that most people barely understand how this surveillance apparatus works or what it costs them. The film moves between Holm's ordeal, camera-lined London streets, and the hacker scene pushing back, building a case that watching citizens by default has become normal faster than anyone voted for it.