The Sun looks simple from ninety-three million miles away, but this film lays out how little was understood about it until recently, and how much is still guesswork. It opens with the 1859 Carrington Event, when astronomers Richard Carrington and Richard Hodgson watched the first recorded solar flare and the resulting storm knocked out telegraph lines across the globe. From there the film tracks the instruments built to get closer to a star that can destroy anything that approaches it, culminating in NASA's Parker Solar Probe, launched in 2018 and, as of its 2021 pass, flying directly through the corona for the first time, with a closer approach still planned for 2025. Footage and animation cover the Sun's structure, from core to corona, and the mechanics of flares and coronal mass ejections that can threaten satellites and power grids on Earth. Interviews and narration frame the ongoing research as a race to predict solar weather before the next major storm arrives.