Broadcast in the year 2008, the film is presented in a TV documentary style format, combining pundit (expert) interviews, news coverage clips and video surveillance footage surrounding the assassination of U.S. President George W. Bush in Chicago around a year earlier on 19 October 2007. The president is fatally shot by a sniper after he addresses an Economics forum at the Chicago Sheraton Hotels and Resorts, before which an anti-war rally had taken place. News outlets immediately begin reporting on the incident along with its political ramifications. After authorities earlier arrest and interrogate war-protesting detainees, Jamal Abu Zikri (Malik Bader), an Information technology professional of Syrian people origin, becomes the prime suspect.