Contested Territory explores the tensions that arise in West Windsor, New Jersey when developers want to build over 1000 homes on one of the town's few remaining tracts of farmland. Current citizens of the town oppose the development, which will bring more houses, cars, and people to an area already struggling to manage the effects of suburban sprawl. Proponents of the development, including the developers and a small, but committed group of social activists, claim that the development will bring much needed social and economic diversity to this mostly white, upper middle class town. The politics of race, class, housing, and the environment collide in a landmark case before the New Jersey State Supreme Court that will decide the future of the town. In the course of documenting these events, the filmmaker finds herself pulled between sympathies towards the town, and an emerging sense of social responsibility.