The September 11 attacks left New York's fire department to process loss inside their own firehouses, and this film stays close to that world rather than the wider news story. It was shot at Ground Zero and in FDNY firehouses in the months after the towers fell, built around access that came from a retired New York firefighter whose standing with his former colleagues let him get them talking in ways an outside crew could not. Firefighters speak on camera about the men they lost and the routines that kept them functioning afterward, with the firehouse itself, not the wreckage, as the film's main setting. There is no narrator standing between viewer and subject; the FDNY's own account carries the film. It won recognition on the festival circuit for that access and for staying inside a single department's grief rather than trying to cover the whole catastrophe.