Gross Domestic Product has become the default measure of a nation's success, and this film asks why growth for growth's sake still drives policy even as it strains ecosystems and deepens inequality. Economists, researchers, and critics of conventional growth theory lay out how GDP counts a car crash or a forest clear-cut as economic gain while ignoring unpaid care work, resource depletion, and wellbeing. The film traces how the metric was built for a mid-20th-century industrial economy and asks whether it still fits a world facing climate limits and automation. Alternative frameworks get real screen time, from wellbeing indexes to steady-state economics, presented through interviews rather than narration alone. Rather than simply denouncing capitalism, the film treats growth dependency as a systemic design problem: institutions, debt, and political incentives all reward expansion regardless of consequence. It closes on the harder question underneath the numbers, what a stable economy that doesn't need to keep growing would actually look like, and whether current institutions could survive one.