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Michael, a school shooting survivor, now lobbies against gun control. His scripted calls to victims are routine until one mother asks, "Are you even listening?" The film maps the system: politicians offering "thoughts and prayers" on camera before accepting firearm association donations. The camera captures not just congressional halls but empty hospital corridors where families wait. The director intercuts archival hearing footage with present-day interviews, painting a portrait of cynicism as political language. We witness how grief rituals have become tools to defer action, where performative empathy masks institutional inertia.