A wall of water strikes coastlines across South and Southeast Asia in December 2004, and this account follows the people who lived through it. Sunday reporter Ross Coulthart travels through the region soon after the disaster, sitting down with survivors to piece together what happened almost minute by minute as the wave came ashore. Their accounts cover the moments before impact, the water's arrival, and the scramble afterward to find family members and rebuild, told in the survivors' own words rather than through expert narration. Coulthart's reporting stays close to individual testimony rather than statistics, letting the scale of the disaster emerge from repeated personal stories across the affected countries. The film was made for Channel 9's Sunday program and originally distributed through Journeyman Pictures. It offers no analysis of warning systems or geology, just the human record of a single catastrophic morning as remembered by the people who survived it.