On December 7, 1988, a 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit Leninakan, now Gyumri, in Soviet Armenia, killing an estimated 25,000 people and leaving hundreds of thousands homeless. Director Araz Artinian, who spent a decade collecting newspaper clippings about the disaster with her architect father, returns to Armenia to interview eleven survivors about what came after the rubble. One of them, Martin Pashayan, a French teacher, found his students dead in his shattered classroom and then his wife and children dead at home; the film follows him translating for French rescue physicians and eventually returning to teach, first in tents and later in Gyumri's new French school. Rather than dwelling on the death toll, Artinian lets survivors describe how they rebuilt daily life, work, and community in the earthquake's aftermath, while touching on the political and social strain the disaster left across Armenia. Built from archival news images and firsthand testimony, the film treats the Spitak earthquake as a starting point for eleven separate stories of what people did next.