Anti-racism educator Tim Wise narrates his own analysis of white privilege, built around his book of the same name and framed by interviews, archival news clips, and scenes from his lecture tours across the country. The film traces how whiteness has functioned as an unspoken advantage in housing, employment, and criminal justice, using historical footage from segregation-era America alongside contemporary statistics on wealth gaps and incarceration rates. Wise appears on college campuses and in television debates, pushing back against audiences who argue racism ended with the civil rights movement, while historians and sociologists add context on redlining, the GI Bill, and other policies that built white wealth by design. The film also revisits the election of Barack Obama, using the reactions it provoked as a test case for how differently white and Black Americans experience the same historical moment. It stays close to Wise's own voice and argument throughout, functioning as both a personal essay and a case for structural rather than individual racism.