Movie Story : Gary Zimmer, a Democratic strategist still stinging from Hillary Clinton's 2016 loss, spots a viral video of a retired Marine colonel defending the rights of rural voters in a small Wisconsin town. Seeing an opening, he travels to Deerfield to recruit the colonel as a mayoral candidate, hoping to win a conservative-leaning community for the left. As the campaign heats up, Gary finds himself navigating local rivalries, a stubborn candidate, and his own unexpected feelings about the people he came to manipulate.