The March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami that leveled towns along Japan's northeast coast also crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, and this film tracks the backlash that followed. It moves through evacuated neighborhoods and temporary shelters, talking to residents forced from land their families worked for generations, and to officials trying to explain radiation readings to people who no longer trust the agencies giving them. Engineers and energy analysts weigh in on what actually failed at the plant and what it means for a country that had leaned on nuclear power for roughly a third of its electricity. The film sets the human cost, displaced families, contaminated farmland, shuttered fishing towns, against the national debate over whether Japan can or should walk away from nuclear energy entirely. It is less interested in assigning blame for the disaster than in showing what a modern country does when the technology it depended on turns against the people living nearest to it.