One year after Hurricane Sandy tore through the New York and New Jersey coastline in October 2012, this video portrait returns to four neighborhoods still working through the wreckage. Cameras follow residents rebuilding houses gutted by floodwater, business owners reopening storefronts that stood empty for months, and local officials weighing how much of the damage was preventable. The film moves block by block rather than delivering a single sweeping narrative, letting each neighborhood's pace of recovery, fast in some pockets, stalled in others, speak for itself. Interviews carry the weight of the storytelling, with homeowners describing insurance fights, contractors describing rebuilding costs, and longtime residents describing what it means to watch a familiar street still look half-abandoned a year later. Some blocks have new roofs and fresh paint; others still have boarded windows and vacant lots where houses stood. The film treats recovery as an uneven, ongoing process rather than a finished story, closing without a tidy resolution because none of the four neighborhoods has one yet.