In 1990s Los Angeles, four young Armenian Americans—shaped by migration, inherited trauma, and buried anger—create a sound unlike anything their generation has heard. Rising from small clubs to the world’s biggest stages, System of a Down becomes the voice of a restless generation through music that is chaotic, political, absurd, and impossible to ignore.
But as the band’s fame grows, so does the divide between Serj Tankian and Daron Malakian over creativity, control, and the future of the group. While the four members fight to deliver a shared message to the world, they discover that staying united may be harder than challenging the entire system.
Victims of a Down is the story of four artists who found one voice—but could never agree on a single truth.
