On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and triggering the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history. This film gathers the people who lived through it: rig hands, engineers, and crew members who describe the blowout, the fire, and the scramble to survive on a burning platform miles from shore. Their accounts fill in the human side of a disaster usually told through spill statistics and corporate hearings, covering the working conditions on the rig, the warning signs some workers say were ignored, and the chaos of the evacuation itself. The film stays close to first-person testimony rather than expert analysis, letting survivors describe what the explosion sounded and felt like and what happened to friends who did not make it off the rig. It is a ground-level account of an event whose environmental and economic fallout stretched across the Gulf Coast for years afterward.