The 1960s get a hostile cross-examination here, with commentators including David Aaronovitch, Mike Phillips, Christine Odone, Terry Eagleton, Peter Hitchens, and Peter Oborne working through the decade's supposed triumphs one by one. The film argues that Britain's postwar optimism curdled into brutalist architecture, hollowed-out town planning, and a transport system reshaped around the car at the expense of older neighborhoods. Crime statistics tracking a steady rise since 1955 are used to puncture the idea that liberalized laws and looser social codes made life better rather than more chaotic. Race relations, education reform, and the commercialization of pop culture all come under the same scrutiny, with contributors arguing that gains widely credited to the decade were shallower or more damaging than the mythology admits. Archival footage of demolished streets, protest marches, and television broadcasts sits alongside the interviews, which do not agree with each other so much as pile up grievances from different angles. The result is less a rebuttal than an inventory of everything the standard sixties story leaves out.