The film progresses in a collage-like blending of archival materials, maps, recordings, reflections, and interviews, to illuminate social, psychological, political and economic histories that create a tapestry of a community. Despite the changes within the community that began in the late 1960s, one subject recalls that the "hard things" were never dealt with, until now. The film proposes Kinloch as a lens for seeing more deeply into the charged atmosphere which led to Mike Brown's death and the massive unrest that followed. And as a recording of an old Kinlochian woman intones, "anything that's swept under the rug, in the beginning--as long as that stays covered up, it's gonna have a smell...and rotten up everything."
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