Deeyah Khan, a Muslim filmmaker of Afghan and Pakistani descent, spends months face to face with American white nationalists to find out what drives them. She travels to the 2017 Charlottesville rally where torch-carrying marchers chant slogans that turn into deadly violence, then sits down afterward with men who were there, including National Socialist Movement leader Jeff Schoep, to ask what they thought they were fighting for. Khan does not stage an ambush interview; she keeps returning, letting subjects talk about the fathers who beat them, the poverty and shame that preceded the ideology, without ever letting that context stand in for an excuse. The camera stays close on faces during long silences, and Khan's own presence in the frame, a target of the ideology sitting across from its believers, is the film's real subject. Some of the men soften toward her; the movement itself does not. The film ends without resolution, only a clearer picture of the human material that extremism recruits from.