Marion Stokes spent three decades in Philadelphia doing something no institution attempted: recording television news around the clock, on every channel she could manage, often running multiple VCRs at once in her apartment. The film traces her obsession from the Iran hostage crisis in 1979, which convinced her that broadcasters were shaping public memory in real time, through her death in 2012, by which point she had filled roughly 70,000 videotapes. Interviews and archival material sketch her as a former librarian and civil rights activist who saw preservation itself as a political act, distrustful of networks editing or erasing their own coverage. The back half follows the practical afterlife of the collection: her family and the Internet Archive sorting through the tapes and digitizing them for public access, a process that turns one woman's private compulsion into a searchable public record of how American news actually looked and sounded, day by day, for thirty years.