On 17 July 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 is shot down over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people aboard. Reporter Stephen Long travels through Europe and Ukraine to trace what happened before and after, sitting with grieving families in the Netherlands while European leaders scramble to respond, then crossing into Ukrainian territory where Russian-backed militia have overrun entire neighborhoods. He talks to people who have lost homes and relatives to the wider fighting, using their accounts to place the crash inside the larger war rather than treating it as an isolated atrocity. The film is blunt about the limits of accountability: despite Western sanctions, Europe's economic dependence on Russian gas and trade has stalled any serious push to identify and punish those responsible. A former senior general appears to warn that letting Russia hold a country's energy supply hostage is a strategic risk Europe cannot keep tolerating. The report closes on Ukraine's position as the fault line in a much larger contest between Moscow and Europe.