Norman Olson founded the Michigan Militia in the early 1990s, one of the first and most visible groups in the citizens' militia movement that trained in camouflage with firearms while news cameras looked on. VICE sits down with Olson for coffee and a look through his militia scrapbook, tracing how the group's fortunes turned after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, when militias came under national suspicion and Olson responded by floating a theory blaming Japan, citing alleged links between the Aum Shinrikyo sarin gas cult and the Japanese imperial family. The interview follows the group's slide into irrelevance around the Y2K panic, with the Michigan Militia effectively defunct by February 2000. Decades later, with the Southern Poverty Law Center flagging a resurgence in right-wing militia activity, Olson and his old partner Ray Southwell try to launch a new outfit on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula. The film treats Olson's recollections plainly, letting his own account of the movement's rise, disgrace, and attempted revival carry the story.