On July 24, 2010, thousands of people around the world picked up a camera and filmed their day, then uploaded the footage to YouTube. Director Kevin Macdonald and producer Ridley Scott sifted through more than 4,500 hours of that material and cut it into a single film following the sun from one time zone to the next. A Korean boy bikes to school, an American father records a video for his unborn child, a Peruvian farmer herds livestock, and a man in Japan photographs his family's ritual every morning. There is no narrator and no script; the structure is simply dawn to midnight, with recurring questions posed to contributors, such as what they carry in their pockets and what they love and fear, threaded through as connective tissue. The result is less a story than a census of a single day: births, a wedding, a shark seen from a boat, a soldier's video message home. It is a crowdsourced portrait of the planet on one ordinary date, built entirely from what people chose to point a camera at.