On December 8, 1980, John Lennon was shot outside his New York apartment building, the Dakota, by Mark Chapman. This film traces the path that led there, starting with Lennon's move to America and his growing opposition to the Vietnam War, which turned him into a target for the Nixon administration. FBI surveillance files and immigration battles aimed at deporting him form a central thread, presented as evidence that Lennon's politics made him an enemy of the state years before his death. The documentary then turns to Chapman himself, reconstructing his fixation on Lennon and the days leading up to the shooting. Interviews and archival news footage carry the narrative, moving between Lennon's public battles with Washington and the private unraveling that produced his killer. The film closes by weighing Lennon's musical and political legacy against the circumstances of his murder, treating the assassination as the collision of a counterculture icon with both government hostility and a disturbed individual's obsession.