Martha Nussbaum, a philosopher and professor at the University of Chicago Law School, leads three seminar sessions with ten law and philosophy students on the ethics of the 2008 financial crisis. The setting carries its own irony: this is the same campus where Milton Friedman built his case for free markets and where Barack Obama once lectured. Students bring in case studies from Chicago itself, including a neighborhood not far from the university and from Obama's own home, where foreclosures cost people their housing, income, and access to education. The sessions work through mortgage lending practices, bailouts, and CEO pay, with students testing their arguments against University of Chicago professors and outside experts in the field. The recurring question is whether actions that were legal, issuing bad loans, walking away from underwater mortgages, paying executives regardless of losses, were also just. Marije Meerman directs, keeping the camera on the seminar room and letting the argument, not narration, carry the film.