The film follows anonymous Minneapolis residents as they evade and resist the paramilitary occupation of their city. Told in the tradition of dystopian cinema, They’re Here is set in a winter landscape where masked agents abduct children, residents travel in car trunks, shackled prisoners are loaded onto aeroplanes within eyesight of vacationers and bicyclists track the movements of an invading force. “In the US, it is now normal for masked paramilitary ICE agents to abduct children and execute people in broad daylight. We believe that cinema can disrupt normalisation” (Poitras, Mueller).