Occupy Wall Street begins in September 2011 in Zuccotti Park, a few blocks from the New York Stock Exchange, and the film follows the encampment as it spreads to cities across the country and eventually the world. Activists explain their target directly: the banks and corporations they blame for the 2008 financial collapse, and the widening gap between the top 1% of wealth holders and everyone else. The film spends real time on the movement's internal mechanics, showing consensus-based decision-making in action and the people's assemblies where hundreds of strangers negotiate demands, logistics, and disputes without a central leader. Protesters cite the uprisings in Tahrir Square and Tunisia as direct inspiration, framing Wall Street as their own square to occupy. Rather than a single spokesperson or manifesto, the footage captures a leaderless structure trying to function in real time, with all the friction that implies. The film treats that structure itself as the story, less interested in whether Occupy succeeded than in how a movement without hierarchy tries to make decisions at all.