Based on Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett's book The Spirit Level, this film from director Katharine Round follows seven people living on opposite ends of the wealth gap in the United States and the United Kingdom. A Wall Street trader chasing bigger bonuses, a security guard working double shifts, a psychologist, and a former prisoner all appear on camera describing what their daily lives actually look like, and the footage cuts between gated communities, food banks, and hospital waiting rooms to make the contrast physical rather than statistical. The film argues that inequality itself, not just poverty, drives worse outcomes in health, addiction, and violence, tracing that claim back to policy decisions made in the Reagan and Thatcher years that reshaped taxation and wages on both sides of the Atlantic. Talking-head economists and sociologists supply the data, but the film's weight sits with its seven subjects, whose interviews return again and again to the same question: what happens to a society when the distance between its richest and poorest keeps widening.