Homelessness in America is rising for the first time in nearly a decade, and this film sets out to show why. It follows families who have slipped out of stable housing as rents outpace wages, tracing how a missed paycheck or a lost job can turn into months in a shelter or a car. The film treats the affordable housing shortage as the throughline connecting these stories, showing caseworkers and shelter staff stretched thin while waiting lists grow. Rather than presenting homelessness as a big-city problem limited to visible encampments, it points to suburban and working families who never expected to need public assistance. Interviews with those living through eviction and displacement sit alongside footage of the shelters and transitional housing trying to absorb the overflow. The film's argument is straightforward: a housing market this tight turns ordinary financial setbacks into homelessness, and the safety net was not built for the numbers now showing up at its door.