In February and March of 2014, Russian forces moved into Ukraine's Crimean peninsula and annexed it within weeks, a seizure the film treats as the opening act of the biggest security crisis in Europe since the Soviet collapse. Directed by Akim Galimov and produced by Ukraine's 1+1 channel, it combines archival footage of the takeover with interviews from people on both sides, including Russian officials who defend the annexation as protection for Russian-speaking residents and Ukrainian officials and observers who call it an invasion. The film gives particular attention to the Crimean Tatars, the peninsula's indigenous Muslim minority, whose human rights situation deteriorated under occupation. Ibraim Umerov, the Kyiv-based spokesperson for the Crimean Tatar community, appears in the Ukraine Today newsroom to describe thousands fleeing to the Ukrainian mainland while others refuse to leave their ancestral homeland. The film does not resolve the dispute over who Crimea belongs to; it lays out the competing narratives and the people living inside them.