The Quiet Part chronicles the arrival of a pagan white supremacist group in a rural American town through the eyes of residents who oppose them, and others who defend them. But what begins as passionate resistance, transforms into passive acceptance as the group’s “good neighbor” strategy seduces some and resigns others to give up on community solidarity.

The film follows an interracial family in this majority white town who must deliberate on how to safely raise their children within the looming shadow of an extremist group. Over five years, the film follows the town’s shift from resistance to resignation, revealing how white supremacy embeds itself in the everyday choices of ordinary people and their primal yearning to belong.