Wendy Maldonado marries at sixteen and spends the next eighteen years inside a violent marriage before killing her husband, an act that lands her in prison and gives the film its subject: the days between that killing and her sentencing. Much of what appears on screen is footage her husband shot himself, home video that becomes, after his death, evidence of the household he controlled. The film sits with Maldonado during her final stretch of freedom, watching her prepare for incarceration while she talks about what eighteen years of abuse actually looked like day to day. There is no reenactment and no outside narrator smoothing the material into a clean argument; the abuser's own camera does that work, showing rather than describing what preceded the killing. Originally released under the title One Minute to Nine, the film was later retitled for its HBO broadcast. It offers no verdict on Maldonado beyond the facts of her case, letting the video record and her own account carry the story to her walking into jail.