On February 27, 2010, hours before the Chilean Navy was set to launch its new research vessel Cabo de Hornos, an 8.8 magnitude earthquake and the tsunami that followed picked up the 2,000-ton ship and dumped it hundreds of meters inland, stranded on a debris-covered beach. The film follows the engineers tasked with recovering a $62 million hull that ordinary salvage techniques would have torn apart, bringing in specialists who previously worked on raising the sunken Russian submarine Kursk. Their solution involves 84 lines of computerized SPMT trailers working in synchronized formation to lift the ship off the sand, drive it across a purpose-built ramp, and rotate it 90 degrees onto a barge waiting offshore. Interviews and footage of the wrecked coastline, the engineering calculations, and the slow, high-stakes maneuver itself carry the story, with the sheer scale of moving an intact ship overland standing in for the drama. It is a close look at heavy engineering solving a problem nature created in seconds.