Timothy Bennett, a middle-class white guy from Colorado, sets out to understand why the comfortable life he grew up expecting seems to be running out of road. The film follows his personal reckoning with five overlapping problems: peak oil, climate change, mass extinction, population overshoot, and what it calls the demise of the American lifestyle. Rather than staying abstract, it treats these as connected symptoms of one system, the industrial growth economy, and traces how cheap oil built suburbs, supermarkets, and the assumption of endless expansion. Bennett interviews researchers and commentators on resource depletion and ecological limits, and the film pairs their arguments with footage of suburban sprawl, traffic, and consumer culture as visual evidence of the pattern it's describing. It also spends time on alternatives already being tried, from local food networks to intentional communities, framing them as practice runs for a lower-energy future rather than fixes for the present one. The tone is personal and unpolished, closer to a video essay than a slick production, and it ends less on hope than on the argument that adaptation, not rescue, is the realistic option left.