Serj Tankian, lead singer of System of a Down and grandson of a survivor of the Armenian Genocide, tours the sites of that history and asks why genocide keeps recurring nearly a century later. Director Carla Garapedian follows Tankian's band on tour while cutting between his personal story and the diplomatic record, bringing in human-rights scholar and journalist Samantha Power to connect the Armenian case to Rwanda and Darfur. The film spends real time on genocide denial inside modern Turkey, filming officials and citizens who refuse to use the word for what happened in 1915, and on the silence of Washington, which has avoided formally recognizing the genocide for decades of foreign-policy calculation. Interviews with survivors' descendants sit alongside footage of Tankian performing and speaking to crowds about his family's history. The film's argument is less about proving the historical facts, which it treats as settled, than about tracing how denial and diplomatic convenience let atrocities repeat, from Anatolia to Central Africa to Sudan.