Bahrain is a small Gulf kingdom where a Sunni royal family rules over a Shia majority, and in February 2011 that imbalance boils over at Pearl Square in Manama, where crowds inspired by Tunisia and Egypt camp out demanding constitutional reform. Al Jazeera's crew stays behind after most foreign press leaves, filming the protests build from chants and makeshift tents into a security crackdown backed by Saudi and Emirati troops that clears the square by force. The footage follows demonstrators, doctors treating the wounded, and families of the dead and detained, tracking how a peaceful sit-in turns into arrests, hospital raids, and international silence as Western governments with naval and business interests in Bahrain decline to intervene. The film won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award's Grand Prize, an Amnesty International Media Award, and a Gold Nymph at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival, recognition for access no other network managed to keep. It closes on a revolution that made headlines for weeks and then largely disappeared from them.