As rebel forces close in on Tripoli in 2011, Muammar Gaddafi's government insists it can still win, even as defections mount and NATO airstrikes continue. Director Anne Reevell traces that collapse from the inside, using the oral diary of a Tripoli-based source alongside interviews with the UK prime minister's senior advisor on Libya and with figures in both Benghazi and Tripoli. The film catches the regime's last moves in real time: officials in the capital still trying to negotiate with the British government, state media denouncing foreign press, the burning of exiled Libyans' homes, and pro-Gaddafi demonstrations staged in London even as the message from Tripoli hardens into 'no compromise on leadership.' Reevell's insiders and defectors describe a government talking itself out of its own defeat, convinced of survival while its powerbase quietly comes apart. Rather than retell the uprising's street-level story, the film stays close to the people who watched the regime's inner circle unravel and reports the fractures as they opened.