A young Black man from Indianapolis spends three years as a paid professional astroturfing protester for a shadowy company called ROAR, switching sides mid-demonstration for whoever pays most, until he realizes that a single private equity firm secretly owns both ROAR and its competitors — manufacturing outrage on all sides of every issue for profit. With a woman he meets on the job, he infiltrates ROAR, documents the conspiracy, and goes public — at the cost of her life and nearly his own — to expose the truth that there are no more real causes in America, only borrowed anger for sale.
A young Black man from Indianapolis spends three years as a paid professional astroturfing protester for a shadowy company called ROAR, switching sides mid-demonstration for whoever pays most, until he realizes that a single private equity firm secretly owns both ROAR and its competitors — manufa...