On April 29, 1992, a jury in Simi Valley acquits four LAPD officers filmed beating Rodney King, and within hours South Central Los Angeles is burning. Built entirely from archival news footage, home videos, and police radio recordings, with no talking-head interviews or narration, the film reconstructs six days of unrest that left more than fifty people dead and thousands of buildings destroyed. It reaches back to the 1965 Watts riots and the 1991 killing of Latasha Harlins, a Black teenager shot by a Korean store owner, to show the unrest was not a single spark but the end point of decades of grievance. Reginald Denny's beating at Florence and Normandie plays out in real time alongside footage of looting spreading across the city and the National Guard eventually moving in. The absence of retrospective commentary keeps the viewer inside the moment, watching officials, reporters, and residents react to events as they happen rather than explain them after the fact.