The documentary tells the story of the longest hostage siege in New York Police Department history. In 1973, Shu'haib Raheem was one of four men who attempted to rob a store in Brooklyn. When the cops arrived, they mistakenly assumed Raheem and his friends were part of the police-targeting Black Liberation Army. What ensued was a standoff that ended with a dead officer. The incident involved police psychologist Harvey Schlossberg whose radical peaceful approach ended the siege by relying on verbal communication rather than gun violence.