Survivors of the Chernobyl disaster return to Pripyat, the ghost city they abandoned in 1986, and walk through the ruins of homes they left in a hurry. A senior engineer from the reactor's construction team, a hospital maternity doctor, a firefighter who worked at reactor number 4, an officer who oversaw radioactive waste removal from the reactor roof, and a woman who was eleven years old during the evacuation each retrace their own night and the weeks that followed. Their testimony builds outward from personal memory, the sudden order to leave, the buses lined up in the streets, the disbelief that anything was wrong, toward a fuller picture of the plant's failure and the scale of the response it forced. The film stays close to these individual accounts rather than dramatizing the reactor itself, letting the doctor's memory of treating radiation cases and the firefighter's account of the rooftop sit alongside footage of the abandoned city as it looks now. It is a document of what the disaster did to the people who lived through it.