Iran's two great mass uprisings, the 1979 Revolution that installed clerical rule and the 2009 Green Movement that nearly cracked it, get examined side by side for what they share as organized nonviolent campaigns rather than spontaneous unrest. The film builds its case through interviews with people who were inside each: Mohsen Sazgara, a founding member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps who later broke with the system he helped build, and Ivan Marovic, a founder of Serbia's OTPOR movement, which used strikes, boycotts, and mass demonstrations to help end Slobodan Milosevic's rule. Marovic's outside perspective gives the film a comparative frame, weighing what worked for Serbian activists against what Iranian protesters faced under a much harder crackdown. Rather than treating 1979 as prelude and 2009 as sequel, the film traces a continuous set of tactics, organizing networks, civil disobedience, symbolic acts, passed between generations of Iranian activists, and asks what made one movement succeed in toppling a government and the other fail to.