Will Peaceman, a seventeen teenager who has got enrolled in a social movement against police violence and corruption with his girlfriend, Claire Everine after the revelation of a journalist's death, attempts to reach Claire who has gone missing, while recalling his past and how the social movement first began. Throughout the story, various social problems are pointed out, such as the reluctancy of adults to have their children join political events, censorship, police violence, et cetera. It is a search for freedom - both Will's in his personal life as he tries to escape from his dad's expectation to study films with Claire in college and the city's as Will and other citizens have to make immense sacrifices so as to claim their birthright, the freedom that they deserve.