After Hurricane Katrina, filmmakers Ed Pincus and Lucia Small get in a car and decide to investigate. Their trek takes them to New Orleans, where they find that the failure of a particular levee has had a devastating impact on many African-American families. As they become characters in their own documentary, Pincus and Small head to Texas, where thousands of the displaced have relocated, and they chronicle the difficulty many Katrina survivors have in securing governmental aid.