My Omaha begins in 2016, as Donald Trump is elected President and political and racial divisions intensify across the United States. Returning home after journalism school, filmmaker Nick Beaulieu seeks to understand how these forces are colliding in his hometown – including the widening divide between the white suburbs where he grew up and the historically Black neighborhoods of North Omaha. Along the way, Nick meets Leo Louis II, a fiercely independent community activist who introduces him to the birthplace of Malcolm X in North Omaha. Through Leo, Nick encounters a side of his hometown he had never fully seen: a community fighting to protect itself, preserve its history, and survive systems that have long neglected it. At the same time, Nick begins filming a series of increasingly difficult conversations with his father Randy, a conservative Christian and devoted Trump supporter, whose sudden diagnosis of stage-4 cancer forces both men to confront the emotional and political distance between them before time runs out. 

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As Omaha faces protests, political unrest, and the aftermath of a polarizing death of a protestor, Nick finds himself caught between family tensions, a personal awakening, and the realities Leo has spent his life navigating. What begins as a documentary about political division gradually becomes something more intimate and unsettling: a reckoning with identity, legacy, community, and America’s unresolved contradictions.