The Mayan calendar's 2012 end date sparked predictions of apocalypse, and this film looks past that scare to ask what people actually meant by a coming shift in consciousness. It moves through a loose set of related subjects rather than a single argument: shamanic practice and its claims about human connection to nature, sustainability and ecological design as practical responses to environmental strain, green technology and alternative energy as tools for a different kind of future, and more speculative territory like psychic evolution and synchronicity. The throughline is the idea that 2012 was never really about an ending but about competing visions of what comes after industrial civilization as usual. Contributors span ecological designers, alternative-energy advocates, and thinkers interested in expanded states of mind, treated as pieces of one larger conversation about transformation rather than separate specialties. The film stays in the realm of ideas and interviews rather than reenactment or investigation, laying out the range of beliefs that gathered around the date without settling which, if any, of them proved right.