Hawaii has been under American control for more than a century, and this film argues that control was never lawful. Made by Ken Nichols O'Keefe in 2001, it lays out the case that the 1898 annexation failed to meet the two-thirds congressional majority required by law, a gap the film ties to the 1993 US Apology Resolution's admission that the Hawaiian kingdom's overthrow was never legally settled. Interviews with representatives of the reinstated Hawaiian Government, including O'Keefe himself as a district representative from Oahu, describe a slower form of dispossession through 'blood quantum' rules that narrow who counts as Hawaiian by blood over generations. The film gives particular attention to a 2008 law passed by that reinstated government banning weapons of mass destruction from Hawaiian soil, presented as a direct challenge to the islands' role as a US military staging ground. Archival footage and testimony from Hawaiian natives and legal advocates build the argument for a peaceful path back to sovereignty, framed as a case study in how empires justify occupation after the fact.