The day that Barack Obama was elected President is caught on cameras around the world in this emotional, ground-breaking documentary. In St. Louis and Austin, idealistic volunteers think they can turn their states blue; in Chicago, voter lines are made even longer when Obama shows up to cast his own vote; in Alaska, children seem to be as invested in the election results as their parents; in Paris, an organization discusses whether there could ever be a black President of France; in Dubai, Berlin, Geneva and New Delhi, ex-patriates express their emotion from a distance; and in Harlem, a felon casts doubt on whether any of this will actually affect his life. As we approach the final announcement of Obama's victory, what emerges is a portrait of how people choose to live through history: the celebration of a new future remaining entangled with the universally visible tensions of the past.