DW Documentary tracks the two years following the World Health Organization's March 2020 pandemic declaration through the people who lived it across Europe. In Brescia, Italy, doctor Carlo Mosca works almost without a break as the first wave overwhelms hospitals and morgues, going months without seeing his own family to avoid infecting them. The film returns to him later, under house arrest and on trial after being accused of murdering two Covid patients to free up beds, a case that plays out while restrictions outside are easing and life is inching back to normal. In Paris, pharmacist Aurélie Rhumeur and her husband Yves Chuop try to keep their business open, home-school their daughter Cassandre, and manage a second lockdown that fall. Balcony applause for medical workers, empty streets, and hospital wards recur as the visual throughline connecting each wave. The film builds its account entirely from these personal stories rather than expert commentary, following ordinary people through fear, relief, and renewed crisis as the pandemic drags into its second year.