Five people, none of them experts or activists by trade, sit for interviews about what it looks like to live through a shift away from industrial growth and toward smaller, more localized economies. The film follows their day-to-day choices, from work to community ties, as they try to figure out what resilience actually requires of an ordinary household. Cut between their stories are interviews with people who work professionally on resilience-building, academics and organizers who connect what these five are doing at a kitchen-table scale to the larger argument about inequality and sustainability in industrial society. The film does not stage debates or bring in opposing voices; it stays close to its five subjects and treats their small decisions as evidence for a bigger claim about where the economy is heading. It ends without a tidy resolution, since the transition it describes is still underway for everyone in it, subjects and viewers alike.