The September 11 attacks and the war on terror sit at the center of this film's argument, but its real subject is oil: the film contends that both events make more sense once set against an approaching gap between global oil supply and global oil demand. Built from a series of interviews, it argues that the official narrative around 9/11 and its aftermath obscures a resource crisis that governments were already anticipating, and that the invasions and policies that followed the attacks track more closely with securing dwindling oil reserves than with fighting terrorism. No reenactments or dramatized footage carry the argument; the interview subjects do, laying out the peak oil case piece by piece alongside the anomalies they find in the 9/11 story. Shot on a shoestring budget in 2005 and 2006 and released free online in October 2006, the film found its first audience on Google Video, where it passed 120,000 views before the platform stopped counting.