Edward Snowden's 2013 leaks about NSA surveillance set off a fight over digital privacy that is still playing out in courtrooms and Congress, and VICE founder Shane Smith travels to Moscow to sit down with Snowden himself to ask how much the government can actually see. The film lands in the middle of a live case: Apple's refusal to unlock the San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook's iPhone for the FBI, a standoff between a tech company and federal investigators over whether a backdoor for one phone means a backdoor for all of them. Smith also talks to journalists and activists who describe being targeted by foreign intelligence services for their work, widening the story beyond American agencies. Snowden lays out, in his own words, what mass collection programs can and cannot do, and what encryption actually protects against. The film moves between Moscow interviews and the unfolding Apple-FBI dispute, treating them as two fronts in the same argument over who controls personal data.